Monthly Archives: March 2018

Booth’s Miseducation and “Fake News”

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Sana Fatima

I am very fascinated by how knowledge and information are produced, spread, and believed, and I am particularly interested in how this process manifests itself in the 2016 US Presidential Elections (or any political movement and momentum in general). Firstly, … Continue reading →

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Last Unit Reflection

Posted on March 27, 2018 by piers fleming

I thoroughly enjoyed the mock election that we have been working on in class. We tried to be a “Orsinian Fascist” party, after realizing the implications of labelling ourselves as neo-fascists (haha). We called ourselves the “Orsinia Forward” party to … Continue reading →

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Changing Powers by Rhetoric

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Alexandria Avant-Herbst

I suppose this doesn’t quite as much pertain to the topic of “Media and Politics” as it does to a few comments that stuck out to me during today’s mock election. I’m talking about our brief mention of “elected monarchy” … Continue reading →

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Elections, elections, elections.

Posted on March 27, 2018 by daniel lam

What an interesting few weeks it has been for me.  Not only were we doing a mock election in class, but it was also elections season at UBC.  Throughout the past few weeks, I kept on thinking about how the … Continue reading →

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The (Queens’) Speech

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Melissa Teo

Last week we had some time to think about a mock election and the components of rhetoric that are employed in the media. Our group decided to take a “green matriarchy” position in terms of political stance (with the tag … Continue reading →

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The Impeachment Of Trump and the 25th amendment

Posted on March 20, 2018 by rylan levine

Daniel’s delivered a really interesting talk on the impeachment of Trump last week. It explored the possibility of Trump being taken out of office and all the different ways in which previous presidents were removed. There are lots of laws … Continue reading →

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Unit Reflection for Week 11 (Boothe/Orwell/et all)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by aja moore

Like all of Boothe’s texts so far, I found this one really informative and pretty comprehensible. I appreciated that he is really upfront about his limitations (he states very clearly that he is only qualified to speak with (some) authority … Continue reading →

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