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Due for Thursday Read one of the following articles on how to change someone's mind: 1. Julie Beck for The Atlantic (2017) 2. Elizabeth Kolbert for the New Yorker (2017) AND THEN this piece questioning the impact of social media from the New Yorker: 1Blog post: 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.'"
Due for Monday 12/04 Work on your initial draft of your feature story! Due for Tuesday 12/05 Read Chapters 1 and 2 of Hiroshima and this article from Vox about mental health TikTok. Blog Post: On pages 29-30, we follow the perspective of Mr. Tanimoto as he races into the city, unharmed. The narration puts forth that, "the wounded limped past the screams, and Mr. Tanimoto ran past them. As a Christian he was filled with compassion for those who were trapped, and as a Japanese he was overwhelmed by the shame of being unhurt, and he prayed as he ran, 'God help them and take them out of the fire.'" Revisit these pages and consider whether or not the "shame of being unhurt" has any echoes or reflections in our society and context today, especially in the age of finstas and oversharing on TikTok. Does this idea register to us as foreign or familiar? In what ways do we see this notion, if at all, in our society or our school today? Can "normalizing stigma" go too far into the realm of encouraging or spreading unwanted behavior? Follow along the calendar on the Podcast Project Prompt!
Due for Tuesday Read the articles titled "Bragg Quits" on my resources page. Blog Post: 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? Should we?
Due for Thursday Read one of the following articles on Rolling Stone's 2014 article about a rape on UVA's campus or about the accusation of sexual assault on Joe Biden (there are descriptions of sexual violence at the start of articles 1, 2, and 3): 1. The Guardian - 5 years later 2. CJR - What went wrong 3. The New Yorker - Reporting on Rape 4. Poynter - Rape and anonymity of victims 5. Here's a general post on journalistic ethics from NPR if you don't want to read about sexual assault. Blog Post: 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? Due for Monday, 11/20 Read the following articles: 1. NYT - How do you recover when Millions Saw you Overdose Online? (2018) 2. Washington Post - Is It Ok to Laugh at Florida Man? (2019) USE THIS LINK IF YOU CAN'T GET AROUND THE PAYWALL. Blog Post: 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? Due for Mon, 11/06 Submit your 300-500 word analysis onto Schoology.
Due for Weds 11/08 Nothing! Mr. Lee is out. If we had one more class, we could do ALL the discussion posts, but we will skip one :( Due for END OF DAY ON WEDNESDAY, 11/08 Read through line 248! (stop when the sentry comes in). Schoology: CP: Summarize the central conflict at hand in 2-3 sentences. ACP: It's easy enough to understand Antigone's argument for burying her brother, but it's a bit tricky to parse through Ismene's hesitance. How would you summarize her argument against defying Creon's orders, and what's a situation for which you do feel outrage and would organize against, but not at a significant cost, like arrest or expulsion? (100-150 words) H: Imagine that Creon's decree was subject to a direct democracy vote, and you are tasked to prepare him for a town hall in which many people who oppose the measure will try and debate him. What are some talking points you would offer him? What are some possible contentions against his proposal, and how should he respond? (150-200 words). Due for end of day Monday, 11/13 Read through 655! Submit onto Schoology: CP: What do you think of Antigone’s steadfast resolution against Ismene’s switching posture? Why do you think Ismene changed her stance after the act? (3-4 sentences) ACP: How does Antigone justify her actions and argue before Creon? How do you respond to her argument? Do you agree? Disagree? What one line from our text feels like it is the best representation of your impression of Antigone during this confrontation? (100-150 words) H: What does true political allyship / solidarity look like? Can you think of an example that might feel more performative or "virtue signaling" than actual solidarity? Does Ismene's willingness to bear the cost with Antigone for ceremoniously burying Polynice's body satisify your standards for true allyship? (150-200 words) ALSO FILL OUT THE SURVEY FOR YOUR FREEDOM PROJECT Due for Wednesday, 11/15 Note: we will have combined classes on Wednesday. Meet in 9202. Read through 880! Schoology: CP: What leadership qualities are you witnessing from Creon? How does he rule, how does he expect his subject to follow, and why might this be so? (3-4 sentences) ACP: Which is more vital for a stable and sustainable society: deference to the leader, deference to morality, or deference to the wishes of the general populace? Where in our text do we see this come into question? (100-150 words). H: Offering two quotations from the passage as a whole, detail the stereotypes and constructs regarding gender that we see in our text. Then consider, how does gender play a role in our text? Is it similar or different than how age is operating in the text? (150-200 words). Due for Friday, 11/17 Finish reading the play! Due for Monday Nothing! Mr. Lee is sick. Work on your feature story proposal? Link in resources
Due for Tuesday Read the piece on American Childhood in the previous week's syllabus and do that blog post Due for Thursday Read the following articles from Rick Bragg: "A Theif Dines Out, Hoping Later to Eat In" and "Prisoner's Pittance is Meant as a Reminder of a Great Loss". Blog post: 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.” Due for Monday the 13th Send me an email with your finalized feature story proposal! Link in resources |
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