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Jennifer Mnookin: “Students and faculty sometimes feel afraid of being recorded…”

Featuring: Jennifer Mnookin, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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For Me, But Not For Thee: Free Expression in Higher Education

Published | Video Starts at 40:33

And we'll take a few of those as well. First, I want to ask about social media and the effects of social media on free speech. And one audience question pointed out that Students and faculty sometimes feel afraid of being recorded or canceled on social media for what they said in class. So there might be chilling effects from the kind of democratization of information exchange. And social media has a lot of misinformation. How do we think about the impact of social media on this whole ecosystem? (40:33–40:41)

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