Tools of Persuasion and Pop Culture as Education: A Critical Analysis

1. Describe which tools of persuasion have you been able to identify? List each one: define its function and argue its purpose? 

Note : Answer all parts

• What is Social Psychology
• What are the roots of social psychology?
• What are the different perspectives of social psychology?
• Is social psychology just common sense?
• Social Cognition: Thinking About the Social World
• How do schemas guide the way you think about the world around you?
• How effective are mental shortcuts?
• What are other sources of bias in social cognition?
• Who Am I and How Do Other Individuals See Me?
• What is self-concept and where does it come from?
• In what ways does our need for self-esteem motivate our actions?
• How do we present ourselves to others?
• Social Perception: How Do We Perceive Others?
• To what do we attribute people’s behaviors?
• How do we decide what other people are like?
• Nonverbal Communication: How do we communicate without words?
• The Art and Science of Persuasion
• What are persuasive messages and which are the most effective?
• What does research tell us about resisting persuasion tactics?
• When shouldn’t we resist persuasion?
• Social Influence: Should We Resist?
• How do social roles and social norms define the ways in which we behave?
• What factors affect and promote conformity?
• What methods do people use to get others to comply with requests?
• How do authority figures get us to obey them?
• The Power of the Group
• What defines a group?
• How does a group influence individual behavior?
• How does a group make decisions?
• How are conflicts among groups solved?
• Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Causes and Consequences
• What are stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination?
• How can we measure stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination?
• What are the sources of stereotyping and prejudice?
• What are the consequences of stereotyping?
• How can we combat stereotyping and prejudice?
• Aggression
• What is the nature of aggression?
• What are the theories of aggression?
• What influences aggression?
• How can we reduce aggression?
• Examining Attraction and Close Relationships
• What leads to attraction?
• How do early parent-child interactions impact future relationships?
• What factors influence and define romantic love?
• How are relationships maintained?
• What role does conflict play in relationships?
• Prosocial Behavior: Why We Help and Why We Don’t
• Why do we help?
• When do we help?
• What are other influences on helping?
• How can we increase prosocial behavior?

2. Explain how did the communication's processes of popular culture in the 21st Century become the established new norm of education?

3. Which theoretical arguments / models do you believe explain why and how the tools of persuasion, such as encoded messaging, strategic communications in audio, video, digital, arts, cinema, hard copy solicitation, commercials, music/movies, identity construction, culture industry, for example, all contribute to social influencing?

4. After studying all of the media sources, what is the take away message you would conclude with? In other words: what is your explanation of how "Idiocracy", albeit a terrifying fictional glimpse into our near sci-fi apocalyptic future, nonetheless asks us how pop culture is no longer a platform of entertainment but a medium of gossip, misinformation, panic, and engineered forms of propaganda? 

URLs: In case you cannot access the videos directly.

"Idiocracy" - http://www.veoh.com/watch/v44577193FmkEcm9f?h1=Idiocracy+-+2006

"The Summer of Love Documentary" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G8O7mkIjpM

"Burning Man: The Documentary" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0NdVn2O1WY

"72 Hours in Coachella

" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihAae7MHfQ  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihAae7MHfQ