This is the main project/focus of the semester. Instead of one, extended research project, students will choose a project focus that you sustain across the semester. Since the conversation at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is always about JUSTICE--- social justice--- this project is about digital justice.

2. This is the main project/focus of the semester.
Like in ENG 101, we have a required research
project, only this one is not as traditional.
Instead of one, extended research project,
you will choose a project focus that you
sustain across the semester. Since the
conversation at John Jay is always about
JUSTICE--- social justice--- this project will
be about digital justice. For this project,
you will choose three digital justice
programs to compare and analyze.

3. What is a digital
justice program?

4. A digital justice program is ANY
event/person/movement that uses digital
tools to achieve its social justice goals. Be
creative and wide-ranging in how you
conceptualize this.

5. What kind of digital spaces
should I be looking at?

6. A program can be a website, youtube channel,
facebook page, blog, instagram site, a
particular tweeter/viner/etc, or a moving
event that encompasses digital work. Choose
something that you are genuinely interested
in following and looking at.

7. How do I connect the
three programs?

8. You have one of two choices for how you will build
connections amongst your three programs:
a)You could choose a topic or issue that you are
passionate about and then pick three programs
that are connected to this passion. In other words,
these 3 programs all fight for the same cause, a
cause you are drawn to. In this topic-focused
connection, you are looking at how different
media help activists spread the word and achieve
their goals.
OR
b)You could choose three programs that all use the
same kind of media. For instance, you could
choose three sites on instagram because you really
like instagram. In other words, you are really
drawn to a specific medium or platform. In this
media-focused connection, you are looking at
how activists make use of the same platform in
different ways.

9. Be bold. . .
Be adventurous. . .
Be unique!

10. For more guidelines,
see course website:
http://digirhetorics.org
Go to section called “Rhetoric
and Digital Justice”