Day 5: Owning Your Digital Footprint

Service Description

Objective: We’ll look specifically at social media (interrogating our fabricated accounts) to teach students how to critically assess their personal networks for conflicts of interest, biases and imbalances. We’ll also perform a script called “The Break Up” that illuminates bias and imbalanced reporting and read a monologue from the 1976 movie Network to discuss how the societal problem's the protagonist identifies are worse in the age of social media. ​The School of Hard Facts P.A.U.S.E. checklist, alongside the high journalistic standards we've instilled in our students over the first four classes, will help them ensure they're conducting themselves with civility, integrity and dignity online.