Lessons
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Reading the Language of Law as Data
Media, Language, and PowerAcross 15 historical US laws, students analyze patterns in justification language to discover how governments frame restriction as protection, pairing a categorical language...
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The Data History of the Attention Economy
Media, Language, and PowerStudents investigate how media have competed for audience attention over time, weighing evidence from newspapers and radio against historian Tim Wu's "attention merchant" idea...
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WWI Propaganda and the Data of Dissent
War, Dissent, and Civil LibertiesStudents treat wartime language as data, using historical newspapers (1917–1919) to categorize propaganda techniques, compare them to the suppression of dissent under the...