prageru.com<\/a>). A sample of their video titles includes \u201cWhy you Should Love Fossil Fuel\u201d and \u201cThere is No Gender Wage Gap.\u201d\u00a0 A video titled \u201cThe Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party,\u201d bears an accompanying image of a confederate flag and a figure dressed in a white, hooded cloak.<\/p>\nGoogle has restricted PragerU content, but notes that the restrictions only apply to users who have opted in to the restricted mode. This means that the default settings provide access to PragerU content, and only the user can choose to restrict access to the channel. While PragerU brought a lawsuit to Google citing First Amendment rights violations, the first judge who heard the case dismissed it, noting that Google is not subject to First Amendment oversight because it is a private institution.<\/p>\n
Gelms reveals through her study of PragerU that social media plays a significant role in our civic functions, institutions, and public opinions, a role that is not yet fully realized. Gelms situates PragerU within the \u201cmisinformation crisis,\u201d and argues that we must rethink how we engage with social media and how user circulation of content increases and decreases the rhetorical velocity of misinformation. As teachers, rhetoricians can help students become more informed about how algorithms control content, and how platforms like YouTube affect our digital environments and conceptions of truth.<\/p>\n
Synthesis<\/h2>\n
All three speakers urged rhetoricians not to ignore the public discourse happening on social media and to take responsibility for teaching students about how materials circulate online, how they are created and controlled, and how to understand the rhetorical work taking place in posting, sharing, and interacting with content and other users online. Rather than dismiss online conversations or content as insignificant or inconsequential, rhetoricians can take special care to highlight the rhetorical work happening in these sites from a framework that interrogates the ethical implications layered within them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Presenters: Caddie Alford (Virginia Commonwealth University), Matthew Breece (University of Texas), and Bridget Gelms (San Francisco State University) Alford, Breece, and Gelms consider the ethical implications of social media platforms, like Twitter and YouTube, and of open access to social media that results in user comment threads and user re-circulation of content. The panelists use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":13633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[672],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1375],"class_list":{"0":"post-15486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2018-watson-reviews"},"authors":[{"term_id":1375,"user_id":227,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kvaneyk","display_name":"Kristin vanEyk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6916d9cc5d5bdb319555de9c8a5cb1c?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"vanEyk","first_name":"Kristin","job_title":"","description":"Kristin vanEyk is a doctoral student in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on multilingual student experiences of First Year Writing."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15585,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions\/15585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}