https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/public/ recent bookmarks from mcmorgan 2021-01-12T16:20:12+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2021/01/11/why-we-need-free-expression-now-more-than-ever/ mcmorgan Trump’s ban from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other tech giants is the decision of a private company. But it is still censorship–censorship is a broad term that goes far beyond what must be protected by the First Amendment. When private universities violate academic freedom and fire professors for their political views, we call it censorship. Those universities are private corporations that should not be controlled by the government, but they still deserve condemnation. ... > Censorship doesn’t stop Trump terrorism. The false feelings of victimization that motivated many of the Trump terrorists would only be enhanced by censorship. And the spread of misinformation and hate by Trump would continue largely unabated. Social media move information faster and easier, but it doesn’t fundamentally transform the transmission of ideas. Unless you’re prepared to ban right-wing media networks, websites, email, rallies, books, and everything else, you won’t stop the spread of Trump’s hateful messages. ... > Censorship doesn’t persuade. We need to understand why so many Americans were suckered by Trump’s lies, and figure out ways to convince them to change their minds. It is a difficult project, but you cannot censor out of existence 74 million Trump voters. Powerful mass movements like the Trumpsters are not stopped by censors. You can’t even censor Trump away, since he is planning to create his own news network. One of the biggest problems we face are people living in information silos where they never encounter opposing views. Trying to banish bad ideas and deplatform bad people only increases this information segregation. ]]> racism censorship academicfreedom sedition trump https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:88d89c0668a0/ 2020-10-14T15:08:49+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2020/10/13/demon-vs-monster-the-vice-presidential-debate-and-an-historians-harassment/ mcmorgan But what is really shocking is how this alleged “educational leader,” a college president, could evidence such rank disdain for the academy’s and society’s most precious core values by placing the words academic freedom and free speech in scare quotes. What signals danger, however, is that the president was so easily drawn by trolls.]]> freespeech rhetoric academe academicfreedom trolling https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:8fe814052db1/ 2019-11-07T14:30:18+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2019/11/06/protect-your-intellectual-property/ mcmorgan Here’s how it could potentially work: > The university could enter into a “Course Development Agreement” with a part-time or contingent faculty member, giving him or her access to all instructional materials that Purdue faculty from across the university system created and placed in a learning management system like Blackboard. The contingent faculty member would then use this content to assemble a course through a variety of modules, thus fulfilling the “Course Development Agreement.” > However, something happens when the contingent faculty member signs that agreement and uses those instructional resources: those “Instructional Copyrightable Works” become “Commissioned Copyrightable Works,” which only the administration control.]]> academicfreedom lms administrative_Schemes copyright ethics adjuncts DE https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:d0ff685eb88c/ 2019-03-22T16:13:20+00:00 https://academeblog.org/2019/03/21/donald-trumps-dangerous-attack-on-campus-free-speech/ mcmorgan The Trump Administration needed to deal with the problem that the colleges with the worst speech codes are conservative religious colleges. The solution was to include a hypocritical rule in the Executive Order that says private colleges will be judged only by “compliance with stated institutional policies.” Since conservative colleges openly state that they suppress free speech, they will be immune from any action (not that any Trump official would ever dare to punish a conservative college). > By contrast, if a more liberal private college aspires to protect free speech, they can have their federal funds taken away based on a Republican bureaucrat’s regulatory interpretation of the campus’ values. This Executive Order will tend to reduce free speech at private colleges, because colleges will have an incentive to remove any promises to protect free speech in order to avoid being vulnerable to federal funding cutbacks. And if private colleges have policies that provide stronger protections for free speech than the First Amendment (as many do), they can lose federal funding even if they meet First Amendment standards.]]> freespeech academicfreedom trump politics https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:67e6538eca01/ 2014-10-06T14:21:24+00:00 http://academeblog.org/2014/10/04/keynote-address-at-the-university-of-saskatchewan-faculty-association-academic-freedom-event-part-1-2/ mcmorganprivatization academicfreedom corporatecreep https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:4c6f6b8a6a61/ 2013-02-03T20:32:21+00:00 http://hastac.org/forums/forum-bill-rights-and-principles-learning-digital-age mcmorgan de academicfreedom academic_integrity dh d2l DigitalHumanities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:80558ed6723b/ 2009-01-18T22:43:57+00:00 http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i19/19b00901.htm mcmorgan censorship academicfreedom FYE library https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:5f541148acbd/ 2008-10-01T12:58:02+00:00 http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/k-12/2008/09/19/in-search-of-support-teachers-turn-to-blogging.html mcmorgan blogging dangersofblogging academicblogging academicfreedom https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:04605be8fc3d/