{"id":49,"date":"2017-02-12T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/chapter\/activity-spot-sponsored-content\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:52:28","slug":"activity-spot-sponsored-content","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/chapter\/activity-spot-sponsored-content\/","title":{"raw":"Activity: Spot Sponsored Content","rendered":"Activity: Spot Sponsored Content"},"content":{"raw":"Rank the following news sources on how much sponsored content you believe their pages will feature: CNN<\/em>, Buzzfeed<\/em>, Washington<\/em> Post<\/em>, HuffPost<\/em>, Brietbart<\/em>, New York Times<\/em>.\n\nIndividually, or in groups, visit the following pages and list all sponsored content you see, tallying up the total amount on each page. Then rank the sites from most sponsored content to least.\n
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  1. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/10\/politics\/russia-dossier-update\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  2. http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  3. http:\/\/www.vox.com\/polyarchy\/2017\/2\/10\/14569306\/congress-shut-off-phones<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  4. https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/tylerkingkade\/laura-dunns-campus-rape-fight<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  5. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/a-gift-and-a-challenge-for-democrats-a-restive-active-and-aggressive-base\/2017\/02\/11\/e265dd44-efef-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  6. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/yale-calhoun-college-grace-hopper_us_589f792ce4b094a129eb8a10?tiall3di&<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  7. http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/02\/11\/japan-condemns-n-korea-missile-launch-trump-u-s-stands-behind-japan-100-percent\/<\/a><\/li>\n \t
  8. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/11\/us\/state-republican-leaders-move-swiftly.html?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nAfter you've ranked the websites, answer these questions:\n
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    1. Did the ranking surprise you at all?<\/li>\n \t
    2. What do you think the quantity of sponsored content indicates about a website?<\/li>\n \t
    3. How does this change your perspective on these websites' reliability?<\/li>\n \t
    4. Why would some websites have more sponsored content than others?<\/li>\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

      Rank the following news sources on how much sponsored content you believe their pages will feature: CNN<\/em>, Buzzfeed<\/em>, Washington<\/em> Post<\/em>, HuffPost<\/em>, Brietbart<\/em>, New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

      Individually, or in groups, visit the following pages and list all sponsored content you see, tallying up the total amount on each page. Then rank the sites from most sponsored content to least.<\/p>\n

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      1. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/10\/politics\/russia-dossier-update\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. http:\/\/www.vox.com\/polyarchy\/2017\/2\/10\/14569306\/congress-shut-off-phones<\/a><\/li>\n
      4. https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/tylerkingkade\/laura-dunns-campus-rape-fight<\/a><\/li>\n
      5. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/a-gift-and-a-challenge-for-democrats-a-restive-active-and-aggressive-base\/2017\/02\/11\/e265dd44-efef-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html<\/a><\/li>\n
      6. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/yale-calhoun-college-grace-hopper_us_589f792ce4b094a129eb8a10?tiall3di&<\/a><\/li>\n
      7. http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2017\/02\/11\/japan-condemns-n-korea-missile-launch-trump-u-s-stands-behind-japan-100-percent\/<\/a><\/li>\n
      8. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/11\/us\/state-republican-leaders-move-swiftly.html?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        After you’ve ranked the websites, answer these questions:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Did the ranking surprise you at all?<\/li>\n
        2. What do you think the quantity of sponsored content indicates about a website?<\/li>\n
        3. How does this change your perspective on these websites’ reliability?<\/li>\n
        4. Why would some websites have more sponsored content than others?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-49","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/39"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrations.pressbooks.network\/webliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}