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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: May 30 2008
Latest Update: May 30, 2008
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu
patriciaacone@yahoo.com

Topic of the Week:

Summer Planning for Community Building Around Presidential Elections

Our work this summer will be devoted to planning information files for use by all who are interested in the social and economic issues that will be affected by the upcoming presidential elections. Instead of posting completed issues, I'm going to post all week long as we work on the issue, finishing it just as we start the next week's issue. We hope that in this way, those who wish to share in our work will feel free to send in comments and sources as we work.

This week we started with a set of files on veteran issues and with a set on the importance of context to interpretation. This is a teaching site, dealing with social and criminal justice. Our personal biases tend towards a progressive position. But our goal is to present the many perspectives out there on each issue, so that everyone in our communities can find information that fits their personal context. love and peace, jeanne, Susan, Pat

love and peace, jeanne

References:

• Art, Like Discourse, Has a Perspective Why we have to talk about context. Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe as explanation of context. This file was just started. I'll have it up soon. jeanne

• Context and Foucault's Non-Affirmative Paintingtm Discussion of Foucault's article on Non-Affirmative Painting and context. Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe and Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans as examples.

• veterans01.htm A War is Fought by People. When those people come home we call them Veterans. Discussion of issues affecting veterans. This one on McCain's voting record.

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Announcements:

Summer activities.

• Planning site version for non-students with information on election issues from all perspectives.
• Planning to coordinate with voter registration on campuses.
• Planning community workshops for voter registration and dissemination of indormation on election issues from all perspectives.
• Planning liaison with classes in Fall 2008.

Issues

• Site Map and Archives updates.

  • Use of learning theory to construct several levels of depth on information for dissemination.

• Veteran's Benefits

  • College Benefits

    This issue is fully discussed in Voting Records as a Measure of Veteran Support.

  • Search for a bill in Congress by key words Government site. Check out "Veterans' benefits".

• Checking News Sources

  Exploring Resources on Candidates' Positions: Voting Records" Start of series of files and how to check sources for more accurate interpretation of information.

• Newspapers Are Old and Slow

  Make it a gay-old time "C'mon, senior citizens, vote for same-sex marriage -- it's the future." Joel Stein. Los Angeles Times. Friday, May 30, 2008.Opinion Section. At p. A19.

  C'mon, young people. We know you're moving a little faster than we are, and you're anxious to get on with change. Sound bites, though sexy, are seriously misleading. If you want control of the change you're so anxious to subject us all to, you'll need the information that journalists and serious newspapers provide. We give you a list of both conservative and liberal newspapers at the end of this page. Use it. Think a little more deeply. Get the facts, as perceived by opposing positions. Talk about the issues. We'll all live longer and better for it. jeanne

Visual Sociology

• Use of Art and Performance to Attract Community References:

Online Resources For Governance Discourse

• Newspapers: Labeling here is based on an article by Ashley K. Vroman on the impossiibility of labeling newspapers by ideology. I personally go along with the conclusion of the conservative Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell III: if the paper never met a conservative cause it didn't like, it's conservative, and if it never met a liberal cause it didn't like, it's liberal. But then, what about the Wall Street Journal whose news staff is considered liberal and its editorial staff considered conservative? jeanne

  Liberal Newspapers:

  New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Washington Post
  The Boston Globe - The Chicago Tribune

  Conservative Newspapers:

  The Wall Street Journal - The Washington Times - The New York Post
  Manchester (N.H.) UnionLeader - The Oklahoman

  The Ideological Labeling of These Newspapers:

  "To test my hypothesis that people cannot classify newspapers as liberal or conservative, I began searching for any source attempting to classify newspapers ideologically. The sole article I came upon was "Rating the Top 10, Left and Right" from Insight magazine, written by Keith Russell. Insight rates what they deem to be the top five liberal newspapers and top five conservative newspapers in the country. A possible explanation of why I could only find one article in this search is because people, including scholars and academics and most popular magazines, do not try to measure how liberal or conservative newspapers are. Some may know that they cannot do it reliably and validly because different methods yield different results. Perhaps others do not formulate methods or measures lest they expose problems of reliability and validity. Unsupported assertions may be politically and tactically superior to dubious investigations."

  From "Slandering" the News: How Labelers Cleverly Undermine the Reliability and Validity of Newspapers," by Ashley K. Vroman, May 5, 1999. Consulted by jeanne, May 28, 2008.

  From here on we're back under construction with updating and additions. jeanne

• A Range of Scholarly Sources
  on Issues that Matter from Many Perspectives, Left, Right, and Other

  Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor -
  Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
  Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation
  The Cato Institute (Libertarian) - The Open Society
  BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
  - La Opinion - The Washington Post
  Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report
  - Web Sources Linked from Dear Habermas
  Concept Index - T.R. Young and the Red Feather Institute
  The World Wide School - Free access to important early works.

• Magazines:

  The National Review - The Economist

  CONSERVATIVE: Media Research Center (Alexandria), Human Events (Washington Weekly),

  CONSERVATIVE COLUMNISTS: A. M. Rosenthal, William Safire, William Kristol

  MONTHLY PUBLICATIONS:

  Arts and Letters Daily
  New Criterion, (Hilton Kramer, ed. liberal)

  The Slought Foundation: New Futures for Contemporary Life
  The Church and Postmodern Culture: A Conversation

  Independent Media Center Alternative news, not from private media corporations.

  Public Library of Science Open access.

  Wikipedia

  Old Source List of Online Sources

   

   

   

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