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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube—and Democracy

The University of California protest movement shows that social media shape not only the new social movements but also the media as a whole.

Media Matters

When the news broke in the New York Times in August 2009 that Yale University Press had decided to remove twelve Danish cartoon images of the prophet Mohammed from The Cartoons That Shook the World, a forthcoming book by Brandeis political scientist Jytte Klausen, I felt that the AAUP had only three or four hours to issue a statement if we wanted to shape the story as it spread through the media. 

When an Advisory Board Turns on Its School

Scratching for academic status and representing a profession in crisis, journalism faculty often lack the presumption of expertise enjoyed in other disciplines. New-media entrepreneurs goad us to stay “agile” and “nimble.” Be prepared, they tell us, to “blow up the curriculum” and embrace “creative destruction” in the rapid adoption of new technology. Web journalist Robert Hernandez appeals directly to students, prodding disciples to “hijack your school’s assets.”

A Journalist's View of the Assault on Public Education

As the united voice of the scholars and teachers at our nation’s colleges and universities, the AAUP has never been more needed than it is today and more crucial to the fierce debate raging across the land, from the poorest public school districts to the most elite private universities, over what American education will look like in the twenty-first century and what role the faculty, the workforce of the education industry, will play.

Steven Salaita, the Media, and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

On August 6, 2014, as I was preparing to check news accounts about the solemn, annual remembrance of the Hiroshima bombing, I came across a “breaking” story from Inside Higher Ed: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had dismissed Steven G. Salaita, a newly appointed tenured associate professor in the American Indian Studies Program, for his postings on Twitter.

Scott Walker and Higher Education in the Media

In winter and spring 2014, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker launched a multifaceted attack on higher education in his state.

Five Rules for Dealing with the Media

AAUP chapters need to get their messages out in the media now more than ever. Media messaging does not come naturally to professors, however; academic training is poor preparation for communicating with the media.

Social Media & the Politics of Collegiality: An Interview with Steven Salaita

This article draws upon a 2014 interview with Steven Salaita to consider the public-private sphere tensions at play in his case, the temporal and contextual nature of writing for social media, and the larger context of US media reporting.

Editor's Introduction - Volume 5

In this introduction to Volume 6 of the Journal of Academic Freedom, Ashley Dawson introduces articles centered on the issue of electronic communications and academic freedom. The volume examines how changing technologies and the changing professional landscape impact academic freedom.

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