Hi Jill, Thank you for starting this thread. I think it's terribly important and I'd like to identify a space/place to start collecting these resources and continuing the dialogue. To your list of topics, I'm also interested in continuing discussions about privacy and security as we build (and teach others to build) our digital identities. I'm also interested in researching/teaching about critically searching/sifting information, dealing with filter bubbles, but also negotiating fact and emotion in discussion. I'm planning on scheduling a series of podcast interviews to discuss/define: trust, truth, facts, empathy, voice in writing, etc. I think this is a global discussion as we examine the role of global hackers, content farms, social networks, and online information/disinformation in the mix. Looking forward to learning from everyone. -Ian -- _________________________ W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. College of Charleston wiobyrne.com Be sure to subscribe to my newsletter. On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:58 AM Jill Walker Rettberg < Jill.Walker.Rettberg@uib.no> 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
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