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Monday, August 06, 2007
April 16 Although she understands why the idea's controversial, UD thinks it's a good thing for the students at Virginia Tech who covered the attack while it was going on to publish what they wrote: 'When the shooting began at Virginia Tech — which was to become the scene of the worst massacre in modern U.S. history — a handful of students in one locked-down media writing class hurried to their computers. UD wrote, in her Liberal Education essay, "The Online Amplification Effect," about a wired world at universities in which whoever happens to be near a computer will report major events, and this is the example of what she has in mind (UC Santa Cruz students instantly reporting their responses to the suicide of their chancellor is another). This is authentic, and we should be grateful for it. |