[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack

[Colin Harrison]

Yes, you may. Please share as widely as you care to.

I’ll post the letter on my Facebook page too!

Best regards

Colin

From: reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Cynthia Greenleaf <cgreenl at wested.org>
Date: Monday, 31 October 2022 at 14:27
To: Colin Harrison <ttach at exmail.nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack
Thank you Colin,
May I share this letter with others?
Cynthia Greenleaf, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Literacy Services, WestEd
cgreenl at wested.org



If you received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Any review, dissemination, copying, or any other use of this message or any of its contents by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited by WestEd and may be unlawful. WestEd makes no warranty that this email is error- or virus-free.


On Oct 31, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Colin Harrison <colin.harrison at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear editor

If posting baseless conspiracy theory stories that are immediately reposted and that gain tens of thousands of 'likes' within hours is Elon Musk's idea of democratising social media, then I'm going to follow the lead of other European academics who have contacted me today from Germany and the Netherlands to say that they are permanently unsubscribing from Twitter (Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack on Twitter, Guardian, 30 October). I've spent much of the last ten years researching how best to educate young people into becoming safe and confident Internet users, but this becomes more difficult every day. Academics and teachers need to let Musk know that his thoughtless and dangerous behaviour does not broaden democracy. Instead, it supports the view, already held by tens of millions of Americans, that if you don't like the world that democracy has given you, you simply use money and violence (amplified by social media) to eliminate it. Twitter has a unique foothold within social media and is widely used by academics, but ELINET, a research consortium of literacy academics from 28 European nations, has already unsubscribed. Musk needs to learn what Kanye West learned last week: that social media actions have consequences.

Yours sincerely

Colin Harrison
Emeritus Professor of Literacy Studies in Education, University of Nottingham

If you received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Any review, dissemination, copying, or any other use of this message or any of its contents by an unintended recipient is strictly prohibited by WestEd and may be unlawful. WestEd makes no warranty that this email is error- or virus-free.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/reading-hall-of-fame/attachments/20221031/9693ce82/attachment.html>