Be sure to ask Glücks what question he asked Dr. Blight re: Frederick Douglass!
Be sure to ask Glücks what question he asked Dr. Blight re: Frederick Douglass!
Extra credit opportunity: show up with friends or family and take copious notes! Turn in a copy of your notes on Monday.
Here is some additional information about this important book.
The Final Exam is Wednesday, January 23rd.
In preparation for the final exam:
Listen (below) to this 30-minute podcast from The Daily (NYTimes):
Interested in last year's Final Exam? Note the subject matter, the grading rubric, and the common challenges encountered with the writing.
Here is the class's first attempt at guessing the topic. Remember, I will narrow (or add to) the list for a grand total of 5 topics by Friday. Ultimately, it's MUCH more important to be familiar with the requirements of the exam than it is to guess the topic!
This quiz is based on real scenarios as well as Facebook's own censorship guidelines, which were released publicly in 2018. Your task: Imagine that you yourself are a censor for hire, a "cleaner" whose job it is to monitor a social media feed. Get into the mindset of these real-life cleaners and try to guess what they actually decided. Do you delete or ignore?
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/delete-or-ignore-pretend-youre-a-facebook-content-moderator/