These are resources for Dr. Wes Fryer's presentations for 11th grade students at Casady School in Oklahoma City studying "Big Tech" in the multi-disciplinary "American Design" course, which combines U.S. History and American Literature. Contact information for Dr. Fryer is available. (last updated 12 September 2021)
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Recommended Topics to Explore Further
Recommended Topics to Explore Further
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China Undercover (Frontline, 7 April 2020)
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America (Verge, 25 Feb 2019)
“It was no one’s job to ask: What could go wrong?” Roger McNamee speaks at TED2019
The biggest threat to democracy isn’t coming from China. It’s coming from within. (Vox, 28 July 2021)
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Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis (BBC News, Jan 2020)
Rohingya genocide (English WikiPedia) *
Christopher Wylie: Why I Broke the Facebook Data Story – and What Should Happen Now (The Guardian, 7 Apr 2018)
The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Explained with a Simple Diagram (Vox, 23 Mar 2018)
Analysis | The Facebook Ads Russians Showed to Different Groups (Washington Post, 1 Nov 2017)
Christchurch mosque shootings (English WikiPedia) *
Facebook: New Zealand Attack Video Viewed 4,000 Times (BBC News, 19 Mar 2019)
Section 230 (English WikiPedia) *
Surveillance capitalism (English WikiPedia) *
Recommended Books
Recommended Books
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Referenced in the video / slideshow:
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
“You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape” by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner - you-are-here.pubpub.org (The MIT Press, Published on Apr 28, 2020)
Twitter Lists, Channels and Hashtags
Twitter Lists, Channels and Hashtags
Recommended Videos
Recommended Videos
On Protecting from CyberThreats
On Protecting from CyberThreats
On AI and Tech Dystopia
On AI and Tech Dystopia
* On the question of whether or not it is appropriate to use WikiPedia as a research resource, see "Stop Source-Shaming: Acknowledge Wikipedia in the research process" (American Libraries Magazine, 1 Sept 2021) and Dr. Fryer's media literacy lesson, "LaunchPad WikiPedia."
Access more media literacy resources created and/or collected by Dr. Wesley Fryer on medialiteracy.wesfryer.com.
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