[Ads-l] Word: prebunking: premediation

[Laurence Horn]

Yes, "prequel" has a lot to answer for.  I've always liked "prepone", which
is totally transparent in meaning and fills a gap (no, not a much-needed
gap), yet apparently doesn't exist outside of Indian English (and my own
usage).

LH

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 10:22 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> My former Wayne State  colleague Richard Grusin (now at
> Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is a
> literary media specialist. He has been using the term premediation to
> refer to
> the media discussing something bad that is likely to happen, perhaps
> (in some kind of conspiratorial way) to 'soften us up' for the actual
> event or concept.
> He's got a book and a couple of articles on it.
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Premediation-Affect-Mediality-After-11/dp/0230242529
>
> FWIW.
>
> Geoff
>
> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
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> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
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> Website: AP News
> Article: Google to expand misinformation =E2=80=98prebunking=E2=80=99 in
> Eu=
> rope
> Author:  DAVID KLEPPER
> Date: February 13, 2023
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> https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-politics-germany-business-a10=
> 273eea5a0227c38187cc4f84d8788
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> [Begin excerpt]
> It=E2=80=99s an approach called prebunking, which involves teaching people
> =
> how
> to spot false claims before they encounter them. The strategy is
> gaining support among researchers and tech companies.
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