23/08/2019
Confronting Digital Extremism Goes Live!
In 2017, UC Irvine’s Office of Inclusive Excellence launched “Confronting Extremism,” a campus initiative having the goal of developing an understanding of the ideas and behaviors that fall outside of the campus values for social justice and equity in today’s society. This understanding then leads to pathways for building positive, democratic communities both on and off campus. As a part of this initiative, UCI Assistant Researcher Stephen Rea has developed four educational modules of curated content designed to raise awareness of different modes of extremist activity in online environments and propose effective means of confronting them.
The module topics are (1) Case Studies in Disinformation; (2) Trolls and Extremists; (3) Algorithmic Exploitation; and (4) Toward a New Digital Civics. Each module contains a recorded presentation, downloadable slides from the presentation (in PDF format), links to relevant external videos and text-based content, a reading list, and a learning activity.
This content is now available to the public at no charge through UCI Open, the campus’ open educational resources repository. The direct link to this content is:
The University of California, Irvine’s Office of Inclusive Excellence launched “Confronting Extremism” in 2017 as “a year-long campus initiative...
