Handouts

1. Introduction to the Course & Rhetoric (powerpoint) 
2. Powerpoint on rhetorical situation, PACES and Kristof
3. Identifying Claims, Rhetorical Situation and PACES
4. Prompt for Assignment 1 (Hari) 
5. Models, Templates and Signal Verbs for Writing about Arguments
6. Describing and Evaluating Arguments: The Toulmin Model, Assumptions Implications & Counterexamples, Fallacies 
7. Sample student draft paper (uses Wallace as target text) and sample body paragraphs written by variety of students

8. The prompt for assignment 4, as well as guidelines for writing the paper.

9. The CARS handout on academic discourse. 

Assorted Links

Sites to Analyze

1. Story Kidnapping baby https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/uncategorized/watch-paedophil-try-to-kidnap-baby-in-stroller-at-dunkin-donuts-cops/ 
2. New politics Today  https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/ 
3. Burka Attack https://www.newpoliticstoday.com/uncategorized/scandal-the-burning-of-a-muslim-woman-on-fifth-avenue-what-do-you-think-video/ 
4. Ending The Fed  http://endingthefed.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ON3u5rrmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkwWcHekMdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjITitjisY

60 minutes piece on buying twitter followers to put stories at top. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=60+minutes+fake+news

April 27

• Black Ops Advertising author interview (video) 
• Review of Einstein's Black Ops Advertising (could use to consider definitions of fake news, and what is left out of Soll
• Steinem "Sex, Lies, Advertising"
  Videos to spot fake news - kids, teens, higher ed: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-to-spot-fake-news-and-teach-kids-to-be-media-savvy#  

Can 'only education' solve the fake news problem?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/13/fake-news-101/97846922/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjZHr10oqc

https://www.c-span.org/video/?421730-1/discussion-focuses-fake-news 

7 – 10 minutes definition (SEE THEY DO SAME THING WE DO)

14 minutes – facebook SEE.

17. Cat mouse. 

18. what is new. CAUSES

19. New causes facebook guy 

24 – how make money 

New Links & Stories on Fake News 

• Facebook releases a whitepaper on how it plans to fight “attempts to manipulate civic discourse and deceive people”
  https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/facebook-and-information-operations-v1.pdf 
• Jimmy Wales [founder of WIkipedia] goes after fake news with Wikitribune – a crowdfunded site for reporters
  http://www.wired.co.uk/article/jimmy-wales-wikitribune 
• How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/the-battle-over-your-political-bubble.html 
• How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time https://shift.newco.co/how-to-detect-fake-news-in-real-time-9fdae0197bfd, by Krishna BharatFollow Computer Scientist, founded Google News.  Apr 27 
• The creator of Google News has an idea for how platforms can help stop fake news
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/the-creator-of-google-news-has-an-idea-for-how-platforms-can-help-stop-fake-news/ 
• Design Solutions for Fake News
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OPghC4ra6QLhaHhW8QvPJRMKGEXT7KaZtG_7s5-UQrw/edit# 
• Why Subscription Models Can Help Combat Fake News and Clickbait Eric Ravenscraft
• http://lifehacker.com/why-subscription-models-can-help-combat-fake-news-and-c-1790470673 
• Fake News Sharing and Friendship Go Hand In Hand. Patrick Alla  http://lifehacker.com/fake-news-sharing-and-friendship-go-hand-in-hand-1793582649 
• Wikipedia page on fake news  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_website

Conferences

April 25 - research

SDSU library http://library.sdsu.edu/ 

Search by articles and by databases, and by date range and per review status

Proquest http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/pqrl/advanced?accountid=13758

COLLECTIONS - PROFESSIONAL GROUPS AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

• Resource for Journalists https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/internet/fake-news-conspiracy-theories-journalism-research 
• Harvard Library http://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake
• University of Michigan http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=283063&p=4471741 
• Search for others 

Google scholar. If fake news, thinks refers to daily show etc. So need articles from 2016 and 2017. So specify date range.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=fake+news&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 

how to find google scholar - google it, https://www.google.com/ 

FOLLOW A LEAD - break down the problem or causes, effects or solutions, and search on terms related to these. 
 Example: How to Escape Your Political Bubble for a Clearer View By AMANDA HESSMARCH 3, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/the-battle-over-your-political-bubble.html

Fake News

• The Senate investigation of Russian influence has invited experts to discuss fake news. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-trolls-fake-news_us_58dde6bae4b08194e3b8d5c4 
• Columbia Journalism Review - 6 types of Fake News and Misinformation: http://www.cjr.org/tow_center/6_types_election_fake_news.php
• Brooking and Singer, The Atlantic, How social media is being weaponized across the world 

Background on alt right:  http://globalcomment.com/how-the-alt-right-is-rebranding-white-supremacy/,  http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-alt-right-terminology-20161115-story.html 

Some Leads to investigate:

• #MakeAmericaWhiteAgain https://twitter.com/LadyAodh  
• White Genocide Project (WGP).  Hashtag whitegenocide, whitepride http://whitegenocideproject.com/  
• http://whitegenocideproject.com/muslim-men-beat-swedish-anti-racist-tv-star-because-he-looked-like-mr-trump/
• See comments 
•  Identity Europa on campuses. 
• Race consciousness
• What is alt right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0uq-QafYQ (by person sympathetic to the alt right) See esp around 27 minutes – connects to demagoguery.
• Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4l_qmcVZc   1.30 – 4.30
• The Endgame - Full White Genocide Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMfk5UeGw4E
• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WHITEGENOCIDE&src=typd⟨=en 

News Stories

1. Private Email Server and Police Raid
2. Amnesty Plans  
3. Ex-Army Sniper Takes Out Neighbor’s Home Intruder From Bedroom Window
4. Over 30,000 scientists say 'Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming' is a complete hoax 
5. Benton Strategy Group Leaked Report, "Salvage" Plan