Hi All, CC World University and School, planning to offer online CC (so free) Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D. degrees as well as I.B. high school diplomas, in all countries' main and official languages, is Friendly-informed, so will take a kind of unprogrammed Quaker approach to "Lesson plans for teaching for a peaceful, diverse world that is safe for everyone " in creating WUaS's own CC OpenCourseWare (and likely building on what has been taught at Haverford, Swarthmore, Earlham and Guilford colleges, for example, all historic Quaker colleges). WUaS plans to develop in Wikidata (Wikipedia's 4 year old database developing with AI, machine learning and machine translation) while accrediting on CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages - e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and CC Yale OYC. WUaS seeks to become the accrediting Harvard / Stanford of the internet in all countries' main and official languages. As a wiki, anyone will be able to add course ware or resources to pages such as this - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies - which will become more user friendly after we move into a new wiki. Classes will occur in group video such as in Google group video Hangouts, and in MIT UnHangouts. WUaS is also planning wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,097 living languages. Hopefully this all-languages' dialogue opportunity among people who want to think together (with wik MIT / Yale academic standards) will facilitate such peace-generation and learning as well. Friendly regards, Scott http://worlduniversityandschool.org https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:09 AM, David Stodolsky <dss@secureid.net> wrote:
On 10 Nov 2016, at 17.11, Joshua Braun <jabraun@journ.umass.edu> wrote:
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.
This gives info on how much was invested in making sure the post-war world was not peaceful and safe:
http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/94BRgl2.html
Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-1960 by Christopher Simpson Oxford University Press, 1994. 204 pp.
For example, the US Air Force provided at least half of the budget of the Bureau of Social Science Research in the 1950s. Military contracts supported studies at this Bureau such as the vulnerabilities of Eastern European peoples for the purposes of psychological warfare and comparisons of the effectiveness of "drugs, electroshock, violence, and other coercive techniques during interrogation of prisoners."
https://archive.org/details/For_The_Record_78_Interview_ with_Christopher_Simpson
https://archive.org/details/For_The_Record_93_The_Science_ of_Coercion_II_Interview_With_Christopher_Simpson
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