Category: Audience & Engagement

Week 2: Social media platforms

“Social Media Logos” by BrickinNick is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

BY RUTH BERAN

The term social media can be hard to define because of the broad range of platforms out there.

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Week 1: Hate, trolls, and phone addiction (and what to do about them)

Pepe the frog was killed off by his creator after becaming an alt-right symbol. Photo: twitter.com/therealdonaldtrump

BY RUTH BERAN & VERITY CHAMBERS


Orientation

Let’s go through the Subject Guide including Assessments.

Saying mean stuff online

WATCH: Celebs read mean tweets, from the Jimmy Kimmel Show

Hate speech

DISCUSSION: What is hate speech? How would you define it?

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