The Fake News Course Sillybus
Here is the list of assignments & readings from UnderAcademy College Course: How to Write and Read Fake News: Journullism in the Age of Trump. Co-Digressors Talan Memmott and Mark C. Marino, first taught Jan 20th-Feb 10, 2017. The course had about 142 registered users, with 90 subscribing to the listserv. For more information, see this article in Slingshot. Also, see these real news articles in EdSurge, Seeker, & The College Fix.
Reading List
Course Publications:
Students were encouraged to post articles regularly in one of our three course organs.
CTRL-ALT-RIGHT: our right-wing tabloid.
West of Knob Lick: Our left-leaning broadsheet.
The Trumpet Blow Institute: A think tank where journullists published fake studies to support their fake news posts.
Lessons
Intro: UnderAcademy Launches New Course Fake News
How to Fake News (video)
Notes on Journihilistic DisIntegrity
Fake News, a look back and I made you look:
* Timeline & Typology of Fake News
Twitter Bots Making: Tiny Flashing Thumbs: How to Bot your way to Fake News Success by Zach Whalen
Introduction to Photoshafting: First Lesson in Photographic Manipulation
Ill-Legalities: Fake News Ask Me (Just About) Anything — with a REAL Lawyer with Andy Bouvier-Brown
My professor gave a lecture on Fake News & I can’t tell if he’s kidding by Clish MacLaver
Fake News: Looking Left & Right
Fake News Press Conferences
- Responding to the President’s War on Fake News (Talan, Mark)
- The Hunt for the Troll: Part I, Part II, Part III (Mark)
Assignments
Inaugural Redress: Jive Tweeting
(The class Tweets from Inauguration Day)
Bespoke News (aka Postitution)
Examples of Student work
Growing the Weeds:
Photo-Shafting
Fake it, don’t break it
