Don’t Think of an Elephant: Blogging Lakoff’s class
First, Lakoff’s new book Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives was just released today on Amazon. It’s co-authored with Howard Dean and Don Hazen.
Second, since so many people have been curious about Lakoff’s class, i decided to create a blog that would document the class. I’ve added the class notes that Mary and i have written as well as the additional documents that we’ve read for the class. This should be a great way for folks to follow along in the class, or at least partially.
Hallelujah!
Cool! I’ll be interested in following along. Could we get an atom feed for that blog, though? There doesn’t seem to be one.
check out http://www.kerryiscary.com for t-shirts and bumper stickers
There is a link to atom, but its not up yet:
http://www.zephoria.org/lakoff/atom.xml
Great! thanks…
Hey, a new metric for universities… CourseRank, a la Google’s PageRank. How many students blog the class, and how many other blogs point to the student’s blogs, etc, etc…
Thanks for doing this, danah. I’ve read Moral Politics, and most of Lakoff’s stuff over at the Rockridge Institute website, but the chance to learn more is great. And it’s been really interesting getting to read the articles mentioned in class. Thanks!
Great, thanks!
Hey, a new metric for universities… ClassRank, a la Google’s PageRank. How many students blog the class, and how many other blogs point to the student’s blogs, etc, etc… Classorati?
Blogged. (TrackBack suX0rs)
You said before that you weren’t sure whether you should blog the class, given that somebody else owns the materials… what made you change your mind?
Atom fixed! Sorry about that.
What made me change my mind: i asked Lakoff for permission; he said yes. We got into a long conversation about digital technology and distribution of ideas. He very much approves of blogs and thinks that they’re a great way to distribute knowledge.
[PS: i have a vested interest in people blogging classes and other academic things, so if you're doing this kind of project, let me know!]
Debaiting the right’s hook
We all know that if a phrase is repeated often enough it will enter into wide circulation. And if the
Time to take roll… blogroll, that is
That’s right, kids, it’s a Second-Order Audit. 16 people are taking George Lakoff’s UC Berkeley class “Language of Politics” this semester, and 60 people are auditing it… one of those people is ace blogger danah boyd… and she’s keeping a webl…