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New Cases A faculty member who
teaches intercultural communication at a state university
remarked, "Sometimes the online discussion is monitored. I
found that out when a member of the technical staff
contacted me to say that a student's comments had violated
university policy for use of the system. The student
was using the class discussion to sell a moped. It
happened at least twice. So they contacted me about that and
took the student's posting off line. It was harmless and it
hasn't happened since. But in the course I teach,
intercultural communication, we talk about race. I run the
course not as a politically correct but as an expressive
dialogue venue. We talk about how to talk about race, about
when material can be offensive. So we do have a lot of
discussion about what it means to be politically correct.
And, of course, the lines are gong to be crossed. So it's
always in the back of my mind whether someone will read
this, whether it might be construed.
Question: how private or public should such
discussions be? What are the pedagogical implications of
privacy? visibility?
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