Communications Essay

Directions: Respond to all questions with well-organized essays. Think of your responses as an argument that you are asking me to accept. You should be sure to support your claims with evidence in order to advance your argument. Your responses should be formatted with 12-point font and one-inch margins.

1.Briefly describe the killing of Matthew Shepherd and the meaning of the event for the town of Laramie. Use the concepts of guilt, purification, perfection, and scapegoating to analyze the community of Laramie’s response to the Matthew Shepherd killing. Be sure to define each term and provide specific and concrete examples of comments, performances, and rituals that will illustrate the operations of the concepts mentioned above. How would you evaluate Laramie’s attempt to respond to this hate crime? If you deem their response lacking, what would you suggest they do differently. (2 pages)

2. Define hate and hate speech. What characteristics constitute hate speech. What is hate speech and what purposes does hate speech serve? What is the hate stratagem and what are its constituent elements? Provide examples of hate speech or hateful messages that instantiate the different elements of the hate stratagem? (2 pages)

3. The text and class discussion have asked you to consider the relationship between hate speech and violence. What is the relationship between hate speech and hate crime/ethnoviolence? What do you think is at the core of this relationship? Provide examples where they are relevant to supporting your argument. You may draw upon constructs we discussed that are useful for operationalizing hateful discourse. (2 pages)

 

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