We talk about the congressional hearings on antisemitism, magnification of the conflict between academic expectations and popular discourse in the College Presidents Cold Open, racial and gendered differences in politeness and threat in Beep Beep showcases , the dehumanization of the elderly in Elder PSA, and the tendency to embellish and its impact on the concept of the “self-made man” and the American Dream in Actor’s Journey. Readings include a piece by Charisse and former Syracuse Provost, Michele Wheatley about the effect of media industry on stereotypes of women in STEM, Appiah’s Honor Code, Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, and an expose of Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths.”
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Readings
Appiah, K. A. (2011). The honor code: How moral revolutions happen. WW Norton & Company. https://appiah.net/books/the-honor-code/
Bandura, A., & Walters, R. H. (1977). Social learning theory (Vol. 1). Prentice Hall: Englewood cliffs. https://www.asecib.ase.ro/mps/Bandura_SocialLearningTheory.pdf
Boudjemadi, V., Demoulin, S., & Bastart, J. (2017). Animalistic dehumanization of older people by younger ones: Variations of humanness perceptions as a function of a target’s age. Psychology and Aging, 32(3), 293–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000161
Cohen, D., Nisbett, R. E., Bowdle, B. F., & Schwarz, N. (1996). Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: An” experimental ethnography.”. Journal of personality and social psychology, 70(5), 945. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-01753-004
Corsbie-Massay, C. L. P., & Wheatly, M. G. (2022). The role of media professionals in perpetuating and disrupting stereotypes of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 1027502. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.1027502
Dane, P. Kort, K.M. (2022 Jul 28). “The dark side of social media pranks.” Cambodianess. https://cambodianess.com/article/the-dark-side-of-social-media-pranks
https://cambodianess.com/article/the-dark-side-of-social-media-pranks
Jacobs, J. (2023 Oct 26). “Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker.” The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/arts/hasan-minhaj-the-new-yorker.html
Malone, C. (2023 Sep 15). Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths.” The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/hasan-minhajs-emotional-truths https://snl101.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hasan-minhajs-emotional-truths-_-the-new-yorker.pdf
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