SEMINAR 7: DIVIDED BY OUR EQUALITIES?

OR UNITED BY
OUR DIFFERENCES, THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING IN
TODAY’S WORLD

2023/1
ACTIVIDADES
1. Reading of relatoría and protocol

2. Assigning roles for next session

3.Reading assignment/discussion Aldous Huxley A
Brave New World chapter 1
ACTIVIDADES
4. In pairs – comparing/contrasting 1984 and A Brave New World’s
chapter one discussion questions (Teams)
5. Reading chapter 11 pags 155 to 163 “ The Huxleyan Warning” of
Neil Postman’s book “Amusing ourselves to death” Public
Discourse in the age of show business. (Teams)
6. Analyzing cartoon strip on Orwell’s VS Huxley’s dystopias ,
who’s turning out to be right? Or already did? Select one the
aspects shown there and support your choice.
https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxle
y-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/
7. To submit/hand-in first academic writing
attempt – argumentative text.
disinformation
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dis·in·for·ma·tion (dĭs-ĭn′fər-mā′shən)
n.
1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government
or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the
government in another nation: "He would be the unconscious channel for a piece of
disinformation aimed at another country's intelligence service" (Ken Follett).
2. Dissemination of such misleading information.

misinformation
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mis·in·form (mĭs′ĭn-fôrm′)
tr.v. mis·in·formed, mis·in·form·ing, mis·in·forms
To provide with incorrect information.
mis′in·form′ant (-fôr′mənt), mis′in·form′er n.
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ardian
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https://piiano.com/blog/history-of-pri
vacy-and-future-predictions/
Brunner, D. (2022) What is privacy -
exploring the history of privacy, Piiano.
Available at:
https://piiano.com/blog/history-of-
privacy-and-future-predictions/
(Accessed: February 13, 2023).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2
gMNrUuEY&ab_channel=TheEconomist

Taken from:
https://www.youtube.com/@The
Economist
https://www.theguardian.com/news/se
ries/pegasus-project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7H9uo
3j5FQ&ab_channel=TheGuardian
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ch?v=I5WjTTi67BE&t=4s&ab_c
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