Viral Activism in Courses on Viral Media: #BlackLivesMatter
I’m teaching classes on Viral Media at both the undergraduate and graduate level this semester. I’ve not taught these classes in a few years and as would be the case with most digital topics, a lot has changed in the interim. The syllabi needed a bit of an overhaul.
It’s not much but I’m able to include one day on activism and viral media. We’re going to focus on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. I’ve done some preliminary selections of readings, but would be glad to hear suggestions. Readings after the jump.
Undergraduate readings:
- Read Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope, “Openingâ€
Link tbd - Read Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60sâ€
http://www.blackpast.org/1982-audre-lorde-learning-60s - Read Owens, “We Have to Make Them Feel Us: Open Letters and Black Mothers’ Griefâ€
http://aaihs.org/we-have-to-make-them-feel-us-open-letters-and-black-mothers-grief/ - Watch Smooth, “The Illipsis: on Ferguson, riots, and human limitsâ€
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-Pd62hq0w - Read Craven, “Please Stop Telling Me that All Lives Matterâ€
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-craven/please-stop-telling-me-th_b_6223072.html - Watch Bland, “Sandy Speaks – April 8, 2015 (Black Lives Matter)â€
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIKeZgC8lQ4 - Read Berger, “In Ferguson, Photographs as Powerful Agentsâ€
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/in-ferguson-photographs-as-powerful-agents/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 - Read Johnson, “After Baltimore and Ferguson, Major Momentum for Criminal Justice System Reformâ€
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/14/406768355/after-baltimore-and-ferguson-major-momentum-for-criminal-justice-system-reform
Graduate readings:
- Read Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope
“Changing the World in Network Society” and “Beyond Outrage, Hope”
Link TBD - Read Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60sâ€
http://www.blackpast.org/1982-audre-lorde-learning-60s - Read Owens, “We Have to Make Them Feel Us: Open Letters and Black Mothers’ Griefâ€
http://aaihs.org/we-have-to-make-them-feel-us-open-letters-and-black-mothers-grief/ - Read Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movementâ€
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/ - Read Bennet, “I don’t know what to do with good white peopleâ€
http://jezebel.com/i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-good-white-people-1671201391 - Read Berger, “In Ferguson, Photographs as Powerful Agentsâ€
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/in-ferguson-photographs-as-powerful-agents/?smid=tw-share&_r=0 - Read Gould-Wartofsky, “When Rioting is Rationalâ€
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/when-rioting-is-rational-ferguson - Read Johnson, “After Baltimore and Ferguson, Major Momentum for Criminal Justice System Reformâ€
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/14/406768355/after-baltimore-and-ferguson-major-momentum-for-criminal-justice-system-reform - Read Workneh, “#SayHerName: Why we should declare that black women and girls matter, tooâ€
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/black-women-matter_n_7363064.html
Thoughts? Feel free to post suggestions here, tweet at me @purplekimchi, or email them to kim dot knight at utdallas dot edu.
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