Current Events
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Thursday, January 9, 2025
What Is News?
What makes one thing worth reporting, while another thing is not? We offer a test for news which can work in all societies. We consider what makes some news stories stronger than others. Finally, we look at how news comes to journalists, and the areas of life where we most often find it.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Year In Review
1) What were the BIG headlines in 2024 (name at least 3)?
2) What made these events Headlines?
3) What similarities or differences did these events share?
4) Which do you think is the most important? Least? Why?
5) What predictions can you make up about the events we will study this year?
Friday, December 13, 2024
I Robot, I Media
Q. How can we ensure that our development as moral and social animals keeps pace with our rapidly evolving communications technology?
A. By playing an active role in our media consumption, trusting reporters who demonstrate fairness and reliability over time, offering corrections when they get something wrong, and when we care enough--reading the original documents they worked from.
Monday, December 9, 2024
Don't Panic
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, an alien researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Do movie trailers appeal to our 'deep' or 'hyper' attention?
Douglas Adams cult classic may have been the stuff of Science Fiction in the 1970s, but one can't help compare his fictitious guide to existing modern-day technology. Never before have we had access to so much information at our fingertips. So why is it we seem to know so little?
Isn't now the time to panic?
1) Which had the most impact on the way we get the news? The least? Explain.
2) Where Do you get most of your news from? Why?
3) What new technologies have changed media in your lifetime? The future?
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Believe It Or Not!
Monday, December 2, 2024
The Matrix In Me
You can see it when you look out your window... when you turn on your television... when you go to work. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. The truth that like everyone else you were born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. More precisely the prison OF your mind.
Implicit.harvard.edu
How do the outcomes of this test compare to similar tests on racial bias?
How do the outcomes of this test compare to similar tests on racial bias?
1) Which of these dolls is the 'good' one? Why?
2) Which of these dolls is the bad one? Why?
3) Which of these dolls looks most like you?
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