Month: February 2018

  • Three Acts of Online Media Literacy

    > An initial focused investigation (with our 90-second fact-checks) > A broader look at structural issues and social impact > A move to personal and civic interventions [source](https://hapgood.us/2018/02/22/the-three-acts-of-online-media-literacy-lessons-a-first-pass/)

  • Why Domains?

    > I guess if you really want to incorporate domains as part of your program, one of the foundations would be asking faculty to dig a bit deeper. This does not mean they need to become sysadmins or programmers, but they would need to get a strong sense of how these infrastructures work and what is…

  • Computational Propaganda and Totalitarianism

    > Arendt goes on to explain the main trick of repetition in propaganda — it isn’t about helping the population remember, it’s about providing a consistency in a world where most things are uncomfortably inconsistent. People see things that are universal and consistent as feeling “true”. That’s why conspiracy theories are so attractive, and that’s…

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