[Air-L] Lesson plans for teaching for a peaceful, diverse world that is safe for everyone

[Joshua Braun]

Hi Jill,

I love this:

> Maybe this would also be a good time to bring discussions of
> pre-internet media and technology and their role in the years before
> WW2, or even earlier dangerous times, and to compare this to social
> media etc today?

I'd recommend J. Michael Sproul's article, "Propaganda Studies in 
American Social Science: The Rise and Fall of the Critical Paradigm," 
which gives a great overview of the changing nature of mediated 
political speech in the pre-WWII era, as well as how critical and 
academic treatments of it evolved over time. He also has a book more 
recently that touches on these things.

I'd also mention Richard John's books, "Spreading the News: The American 
Postal System from Franklin to Morse" and "Network Nation: Inventing 
American Telecommunications" for great examinations of the intersection 
of media infrastructures and technologies on the one hand and civic life 
on the other.

Lastly, I'll plug an upcoming ICA pre-conference that I've been 
co-organizing with Ramon Lobato and Amanda Lotz that hopes to explore 
some of these issues. There's still time to submit if you're interested:

http://distributionmatters.wordpress.com

Cheers,
Josh


On 2016-11-10 05:57, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> After the US elections I am sure many of us, whereever we live, are
> thinking about how to plan next semester’s teaching so that it helps
> equip the next generation to deal with an increasingly frightening
> world.
> 
> Within internet research, some obvious topics we can discuss are
> things like polarisation of polticial views, filter bubbles,
> algorithmic news filtering and the increasing spread of fake news.
> More generally, we can design activities that foster critical
> thinking, empathy, understanding of people who are not like oneself,
> and relate this to technology/internet/media.
> 
> Maybe this would also be a good time to bring discussions of
> pre-internet media and technology and their role in the years before
> WW2, or even earlier dangerous times, and to compare this to social
> media etc today?
> 
> I don’t yet have very clear ideas about this, but I would love to
> share ideas with other internet researchers who teach and who want to
> do the best we can in our teaching to counteract the racism, sexism,
> hatred, distrust of government and of others, and general division
> that is not only affecting the USA but obviously Europe and other
> parts of the world as well.
> 
> I know many of us already teach these things, but maybe not in as
> focused a way as I think we may need to do in future? Or maybe the
> resources I’m longing for already exist?
> 
> If you have ideas, please share them! If this is something several of
> us are interested in, we could set up a syllabus/Google doc / Facebook
> group or something. I’m thinking case studies with readings and lesson
> plans would be a really useful resource and might be a way we could do
> some good in all this.
> 
> Jill
> 
> 
> Jill Walker Rettberg
> Professor of Digital Culture
> Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
> University of Bergen
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-- 
Josh Braun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies
Journalism Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst

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