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Misinformation, Propaganda, and Misleading News
Protest Music Worldwide and Protest Songs from Chapter 4:
Education:
National Center for Education Statistics
"The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning."
"The 7 elements of a good online course."
"Tips for Taking Online Classes: 8 Strategies for Success."
Graffiti as Art:
From Patterns Research Guide:
"Why Rational People Buy into Conspiracy Theories."New York Times, 21 May 2013. ProQuest.
Koerth-Baker, Maggie. "Sure You Saw a Flying Saucer." New York Times Magazine, May 26, 2013, pp. 15-16. ProQuest,
Library Research Guides:
Misinformation, Propaganda, and Misleading News
Birds Aren't Real Conspiracy:
Alfonso, Fernando. "Are Birds Actually Government-Issued Drones? So Says a New Conspiracy Theory Making Waves (and Money)." Audubon,16 Nov. 2018.
Tamura, Megumi. "The Other Virus." University Wire, Feb 11, 2021. ProQuest
Taylor, Lorenz. "Birds Aren’t Real, Or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory." New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021.
Weill, Kelly. "‘Birds Aren’t Real’ is the Conspiracy Theory Mocking QAnon: In an Age Where Outlandish Theories Command National Attention, Members of Generation Z have Turned Disinformation into Performance Art." The Daily Beast, 28 Nov. 2018. ProQuest,
Social Media
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"A Zombie is a Slave Forever."
Additional Reading:
Library research guides
Discrimination in the United States
Something ordinary that we take for granted
Tufekci, Zeynep. "Why the Post Office Makes America Great." New York Times, Jan 03, 2016. ProQuest.
Hurtful terms that we misuse or use incorrectly
"Retard"
Howard, Theresa. "A mother's view of a word that wounds: 'Retard'." USA Today, 5 July 2007, p. 11A.
"How we Talk about Disabilities." The Washington Post, Feb 18, 2010. ProQuest,
"That's so gay"
Trigger Warnings
"Trigger Warnings." Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo.
Khalid, Amna, and Jeffrey A. Snyder. "The Data is in: Trigger Warnings Don't Help: A Decade Ago, Few Researchers had Studied their Effectiveness. Now we Know." The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 68, no. 3, 2021, pp. 44. (STUDENTS: Create your own free Chronicle of Higher Education account by following these directions.)
From Patterns Research Guide:
Stone, Geoffrey R. "Free Expression in Peril." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2016.
Downes, Sophie. "Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, Too."ProQuest, Sep 10, 2016.
Chemaly, Soraya. "What’s Really Important About ‘Trigger Warnings'." HuffPost. May 20, 2014.
Research Guides
"Speech, Freedom of." Encyclopedia. Issues & Controversies
Satz, Debra, and Dan Edelstein. "By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars: Guest Essay."ProQuest, Sep 03, 2023,
From Patterns Research Guide:
King, Jr., Martin Luther. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." in Shally-Jensen, Michael. The 1960s (1960-1969). Salem Press, 2016. EBSCOhost
Research Guides:
Discrimination in the United States
