Do you believe the internet age - with its wide accessibility to a variety of perspectives and expertise - has made it easier or harder for individuals to overcome "motivated reasoning" and confirmation bias? How should classrooms, campuses, or families try to ensure that an individual's trust is placed in the "expert perspectives", if at all? How do you respond to the following quote: "But a new working paper...found that almost all extremist content is either consumed by subscribers to the relevant channels—a sign of actual demand rather than manipulation or preference falsification—or encountered via links from external sites. It’s easy to see why we might prefer if this were not the case: algorithmic radicalization is presumably a simpler problem to solve than the fact that there are people who deliberately seek out vile content. 'These are the three stories—echo chambers, foreign influence campaigns, and radicalizing recommendation algorithms—but, when you look at the literature, they’ve all been overstated.'"
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How do you respond to the following quote from the Florida Man article: Florida Man is a microcosm of...how easily an ironic joke, multiplied by millions of shares, can begin to feel like freak-show mockery or viral cyberbullying... it feels as if they’ve become part of a larger culture that reduces people in the criminal justice system to villains or punchlines, while stripping away the context of systemic problems. Is laughing at or gawking at things ethically suspect if it depicts someone at their worst who might be the victim of systemic problems? Should someone feel guilty for publishing stories or videos that feature "flattened stories" meant to cause outrage or humor? Does it matter if you're "punching up" or "punching down"? Is it not that deep?
How should media companies approach covering sensitive subjects and violent events like rape and sexual assault? What journalistic ethics were violated or transgressed in the case of Rolling Stone's article? How do you respond to Laura McGann refusing to break the story of Tara Reade's allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden? Now, almost a decade later, have we gotten better as a society when it comes to our expectations for journalism or conversations / conditions around sexual assault and rape? What strides still need to be made?
Is what Bragg did all that bad? Should he have been disciplined, fired, or pushed out for it? How does reflecting on your experience with his writing help or hurt your sentiments towards his pieces and his practices? What journalistic ethics does hearing about how and why Bragg quit elicit? Do we still hold these ethics today in an era where trust in media institutions feels so fragile yet the "as reported by" nature of news feels so prevalent? Should we?
How should prison systems deal with prisoners like Graham Mahes? How do you respond to a sentence that asks Brandon Blenden to write a weekly check as pittance? How should we understand remorsefulness as a factor in prison sentencing / the prison system? How do you respond to this judge who favors alternative sentencing: “Whenever I utilize any type of creative punishment, it’s to hopefully teach people a lesson,” says Judge Carr. “I think it’s a deterrent. No one likes to be publicly humiliated, so it sends a clear message.” One recent case was a teen charged with cyberbullying, who she made post another video of her apologizing on Facebook. “I’m big on apologies,” says Carr. “I haven’t heard any criticism. If anything, I received overwhelming mail saying, ‘great job, great sentence.’ Even the young lady with the Facebook said she really learned her lesson.”
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