Setting Up a Blog Page & Hypothesis Account

• Setting up a blog on Wordpress is fast and fairly simple. See this step-by-step guide.
• The hypothes.is web browser extension allows us to collaboratively annotate online texts. Here is a guide to using Hypothesis.

Unit 1: Analyzing & Evaluating Hari

     Paper #1 Prompt

• Johann Hari's "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think" 
  
• Video of Hari's TED talk that presents an argument very close to the written text. 
• The site for his book Chasing the Scream has many useful resources, videos, interviews and links. 
• Background on Hari: see the bio on his publisher's page, his twitter feed, Wikipedia page, and facebook page. 
• The web site for Hari's book has a quiz that students can take. The quiz explores what people know and assume about addiction and the war on drugs.  
• Animated version of Hari's argument. Comic book exploration of the rat park experiment by Stuart McMillen. 
• "4 Things Johann Hari Gets Wrong about Addition- Updated with a Response from Hari" The Fix
• "Chasing the Scream"- New York Times Review of Books
• "Stop Telling Me 'Everything You Think You Know about Addiction is Wrong'" Addiction and Mental Health Blog 
• "Johann Hari: 'The Opposite of Addicition Isn't Sobriety- It's Connection'"- The Guardian
• Response to Huff Post Article: The Likely Cause of Addiction has Been Discovered, and It’s Not what You Think – Dr. Simon Says Science 
• "The Portuguese Puzzle: Decriminalization of Drugs and Drug Usage" David Henderson, Library of Economics and Liberty  
• Naomi Klein interview with Hari that largely supports and extends his argument. The title is, "Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?" 

Unit 2: The Rhetoric of Demagoguery (Lens Assignment)

Paper #2 Prompt

• Roberts-Miller on Characteristics of Demagoguery - a short, edited version of her argument and her full article, "Democracy, Demagoguery, and Critical Rhetoric." 
• Short 3 minute introduction to Wallace from the History channel. One minute video excerpt from Wallace speech ("segregation today..." section) VIDEO OF FULL WALLACE SPEECH (prepared remarks begin about 4.14 minutes in) 
• Wallace Inaugural Address (Word document) and as .pdf
  
• Video of LaPierre Speech  and text of Lapierre Speech   
• Teaching Notes - strategies in Wallace
• Amy E. Mendes, "Digital Demagogue: The Critical Candidacy of Donald J. Trump." This short article essay "catalogues the existing definitions of demagoguery, examines how Trump’s rhetoric may qualify, and outlines some ways in which demagogues may function differently in a digital world." It could be used as an example of a scholar using Roberts-Miller's lens. or as part of a project a student may be interested in investigating.
• "What History Teaches Us about Demagogues Like Donald Trump"  
• Common fallacies handout 

Demagoguery - some possible examples from social media 

• Alex Jones' Twitter feed, including his retweets of Russian groups, could be used for an analysis of demagoguery, and in particular the strategy of demonization (see Jones & Trump - "We'll be speaking a lot": http://www.infowars.com/trump-tells-alex-jones-well-be-speaking-a-lot/) 

• Jones suggests Obama is Beelzebub http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-flies-landing-on-obama-prove-hes-satanic/