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)
Recommended Topics to Explore Further
Not referenced / linked in the video / slideshow:
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)
Referenced in the video / slideshow:
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
Not referenced / linked in the video / slideshow:
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
Recommended Videos
On Protecting from CyberThreats
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.