Transcript Electronic Media and Discourse - Paideia

Electronic Media and Discourse
Amy Bender
University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee
Plan for time together
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Didactic session-issues with media
Seminar-Mending Wall
Coaching-practice big ideas with brevity
Social Networking Sites
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Our Use
Facebook
Twitter
Others?
Texting, instant messaging, blog
posting, email
Link between media and
physiology
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Does the media actually change the way our
brains function?
Privacy issues-apps to locate friends that are
using media, tracking devices in cell phones,
Gestures, emotions, and moods our
representations of ourselves in the world are
changing
Desire of immediacy and connection
Use of sites and our future
discourse
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Smart phones and
iPads mush my
toddlers brain?
Speed of
communication
detrimental to
thinking? (Sponge
Bob study, Wall
street journal)
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Prewritten posts to
sway thinking on
issues (Morgan
Stanley)
Flaming (hitting
send button too
soon)
Be the change
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Positive views-immediacy of social language
creates opportunities
Communication of logistics
“Forced to compress message into fewer
words, each word works harder and carries
more meaning” David Gelernter
Accessible when you choose to allow it
Use as instructional tool-enhancing texts
Seminar Mending Wall
Practice Twitter
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Write message 140 characters to sum
up big ideas in seminar
Difference between thin and thick
tweets, hash tags, etc.
Share with group