<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">About the same time that this story appeared on FOX, AnthroNews published this piece:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/01/21/ferguson-and-the-decline-in-anthropology/">http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/01/21/ferguson-and-the-decline-in-anthropology/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">(It now comes with an "editor's note.") At the time I quipped about the FOX news story that it was "the kind of thing one might see in AnthroNews." </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">On Savage Minds Alex Golub responded to the AN piece with this essay:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><a href="http://savageminds.org/2015/01/27/16115/">http://savageminds.org/2015/01/27/16115/</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Cheers,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">Kerim</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Stephanie Feyne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefeyne@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefeyne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">It seems this discussion is not only one of media tactics but also one of addressee ideology (with the media creating or supporting it).</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">And the predisposition to believe what is being touted on air.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The article below addresses how one's beliefs cement ideas regardless of efforts to dispel fictions that agree with those beliefs.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/i-dont-want-to-be-right" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/i-dont-want-to-be-right</a><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">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. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Not that I know how to do it ... That's a lot of work :)</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thanks,<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Stephanie Feyne</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">NYC</div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Bruce Mannheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mannheim@umich.edu" target="_blank">mannheim@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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." </div><div><br></div><div>Lies, damn lies, and changing prepositions.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">burciuol@hamilton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, galey modan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmodan@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmodan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Galey</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-28 12:55 GMT-05:00 Marcia Farr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farrmarcia@gmail.com" target="_blank">farrmarcia@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">burciuol@hamilton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">Racism can be problematic for everyone -- who knew?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, PAUL B Garrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgarrett@temple.edu" target="_blank">pgarrett@temple.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/fox-news-white-racism_n_6557540.html</a> <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div>
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