Course Description--From Lil Baby to TikTok: Media as Educator
Humans spend a significant amount of our time engaging with an ever growing variety of media-from modern digital mediums such as TV, film, social networking, or video games, to more traditional forms of conveying information and meaning, like art, literature, or music. How do different media we encounter (or even avoid) contribute to individual and shared knowledge-building that occurs outside our formal institutions of schooling? What are the limits and promises of different media as modes of informal education, especially when they can just as easily encourage/broaden as stifle/mislead our thinking and perspectives? Why does this matter? In this course, we will critically examine the influences of different media on what we know and how we think, contemplate how this relates to our formalized educational experiences, and discuss some implications for individuals and society.
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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
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Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age
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Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age
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Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices: First Person Accounts from Leading Voices
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Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
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Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It
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The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis
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Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age
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The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy
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Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Includes searchable PDF content going back as far as 1887.
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Provides articles in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 690 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 380 journals.
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Access to more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
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"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, Purdue U Writing Lab, 2022This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (9th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
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