How can faculty across disciplines encourage critical engagement with social media?
In this presentation, Dr. Palermo will share a class activity where students author both bad-faith X posts and Community Notes about them. Community Notes are intended by X for contributing users to add context to potentially misleading information. Dr. Palermo will discuss fact-checking and reflect on some of the challenges students might encounter when navigating the platform’s constraints. Attendees will discuss how these insights might inform their use of social media in class activities and assignments.
This event was cosponsored by Writing Across Emory, First-Year Writing, and the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence.
Gregory Palermo (he/they) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Emory University Writing Program. He specializes in the rhetorics of data, algorithms, and disciplinary formation. His teaching and research bridge the fields of writing, rhetoric, and digital humanities, focusing on data trans- formation and visualization as rhetorical practices.