09 Nov Reading Response 6 (“#Ferguson” and TedTalks about Digital Activism)
IGE/EWS 2600: Digital Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
After reading the text, “#Ferguson” and watching the two TedTalks, provide a very brief summary of the text and the videos followed by a longer, and more important analysis in which you discuss your understanding of the course materials by connecting and comparing them with other personal experiences and/or current events. You should feel free to include one or two questions for class discussion, too. Your response should be 300-400 words long.
Reading Responses are not summaries. Rather, they provide the space for you to discover, explore, connect, apply, and question how the ideas you read in the assigned texts relate to your classroom learning and your personal experiences/observations in the wider world. Learning is a process that involves self-reflection. So, while engaging the texts, you may also use your RRs to examine your habits of thought, identify your personal perspectives, and consider how you interpret experience and form opinions. RRs become a record of your growing ideas, and may assist you in developing your critical analysis essay.
https://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_let_s_design_social_media_that_drives_real_change?language=en
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_online_social_change_easy_to_organize_hard_to_win?language=ug
