[Linganth] It turns out that Jane Hill is white(!)

[Stephanie Feyne]

It seems this discussion is not only one of media tactics but also one of
addressee ideology (with the media creating or supporting it).
And the predisposition to believe what is being touted on air.

The article below addresses how one's beliefs cement ideas regardless of
efforts to dispel fictions that agree with those beliefs.


http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/i-dont-want-to-be-right

So our discussion of how academics can respond to Fox and its ilk is also a
question not just of discussing facts, but recognizing the audience's
ideologies that are being supported in the story and finding ways to appeal
to core beliefs and reframe them in the discussion.

Not that I know how to do it ... That's a lot of work :)

Thanks,
Stephanie Feyne
NYC

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Bruce Mannheim <mannheim at umich.edu> wrote:

> Bonnie is absolutely correct here.  I sent the link around to colleagues
> here who teach Jane's book and articles to use in classes.   The change of
> prepositions from the book title to what is described in the clip is not a
> matter of sloppiness, but is what Bonnie says that it is: "deployed
> entirely in service to creating sharp political lines and cementing their
> demographic."
>
> Lies, damn lies, and changing prepositions.
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <burciuol at hamilton.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Well put.  It's the same dynamic as what happens every time any
>> politician with an even remotely progressive message tries to explain it to
>> the general public.  The problem is, we as academics value accurate
>> explanation.  But the likes of Fox or of shall we say certain political
>> operatives are not remotely invested in any notion of accurate explanation
>> -- for them reference is deployed entirely in service to creating sharp
>> political lines and cementing their demographic.  I do not know how to
>> fight any of that directly.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, galey modan <gmodan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's not just a question of reaching out 'beyond the academy', though --
>>> this story was instigated by a college student -- one who didn't think
>>> there was anything strange about complaining about book titles of books she
>>> hadn't read for a course she didn't take. And there is a larger, more
>>> general problem when a major news network thinks it reasonable to cook up a
>>> story about book titles in which the actual content of the books is deemed
>>> too irrelevant to address. Not sure what it would take to instigate the
>>> monumental cultural shift in attitudes towards the academy that would be
>>> needed for such stories to be universally deemed ridiculous.
>>>
>>> Galey
>>>
>>> 2015-01-28 12:55 GMT-05:00 Marcia Farr <farrmarcia at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> What this also shows, unfortunately, is how wide the gap is between
>>>> most "white" people and academics. We have to continue to document and
>>>> analyze as we do, but we also should be working on explaining our work to
>>>> reach these people, or things will never change.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <
>>>> burciuol at hamilton.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Racism can be problematic for everyone -- who knew?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, PAUL B Garrett <pgarrett at temple.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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