Advocacy Intro- Tagert

Mhm. Okay, we are back and we are going to

look at a community based solution to this problem.

This one is a little bit out there.

Start a collective action campaign where everyone in the United

States or maybe a group of people who are working

together. Whereas uh infrared jamming glasses and face putty, so

they're disguising themselves are changing the shape of their face.

They're wearing special glasses to jam security cameras or kind

of mess them up.

Let's see how this would work.

We talked about the root causes of the problem being

uh laws being the facial recognition technology.

Does this solve the root causes?

No, I mean it would protect these people from facial

recognition. Um It would kind of counteract the advanced technology

but it's not solving the problem of law problem of

consent. So we'll talk about coverage.

How many people does this solution to help only as

many as participate in this scheme?

Right. As many people go out and buy these glasses

and put on face putty to make their nose a

different shape and stuff like that.

So only as many as participate in this collective action

and only for as long as they participate.

But if this action gained significant attention that could shift

the public conversation about these issues that could put them

at the front of people's minds and it could lead

to legislative change.

Does the potential solution address the problem for a significant

number of people?

So kind of same answer.

Let's go to cost and benefit.

What will the cost of the solution be?

I don't know, probably 50 or 100 bucks for everyone

who wants to participate.

But also the time and the effort of putting on

facial makeup or face putty every day.

Uh Do the benefits of the solution outweigh those costs?

That would depend on I think the security of biometric

data in these systems and how much value you put

on individual privacy.

So feasibility.

This is kind of a key one here.

Can this happen?

It's not unfeasible canopy implemented?

Yeah, absolutely.

Once implemented.

Can it be enforced?

This solution wouldn't have to be enforced.

This is a voluntary collective action.

And when it's in place, how will people assess whether

it's working?

This is kind of key here.

Whether the conversation around the issue grows and shifts is

how you would judge it.

So does this collective action received media and government attention?

Does it generate buzz and conversation among people who are

not participating in it?

And when people see others participating in this, do they

view them favorably?

Because that is what's going to lead to a shift

in public opinion?

Um, So again, same thing for comparison.

Haven't really gone into that yet, but you're welcome to

now. I'm going to go to another one and this

one, I would like you guys to pause the video

and just assess it on your own.

So go through that list of questions from the framework

about causation coverage, cost benefit, feasibility and comparison and think

about how you would assess this one.

So here's this solution.

Uh, so go ahead and just pause the video here

for a little bit and kind of talk through this

to yourself, see what you come up with.

I'll wait seriously, posit video, do it all right.

Are we good?

Did you do it?

Cool. So, um, you know, this is just another one

where I think there are there are positives and there

are negatives here.

Um, this would of course depend heavily on kind of

the teeth that are put behind it, how big those

fines are, whether it's enforced properly.

So, um, feasibility is a big one here, in terms

of whether legislatures are willing to kind of put this

into practice in the face of what would probably be

heavy lobbying from industries that are involved, um, and heavy

resistance from those within the government who want to um,

maybe maintain an easier route to facial recognition.

Uh, so this is just kind of another possible solution.

And I'm not going to say that, I think any

of these is the perfect one, right?

All of these solutions have positives and have negatives.

And that's one interesting thing about this advocacy project is

that there's not like a right answer, otherwise there wouldn't

be a need to argue for a solution what you're

really doing.

You know, there's a couple ways you can approach this

one might be you choose a solution you think is

best, and you kind of spend your essay going through

it in detail.

Another would be to do this type of analysis on

maybe a few different solutions through your essay and then

use that analysis to decide on one that you think

is best and kind of discuss that with your reader.

Both of those could be equally valid ways into this

essay. Now, let's talk about advocacy writing itself in the

real world, because this is not like everything we do

in here.

This is not kind of some fictitious academic genre.

This does exist in a ton of places outside.

Um, so just kind of give you a quick run

through who the heck is doing advocacy writing?

Lots of people lobbyists do a lot of it.

Policymakers do a lot of it.

Um, if you if you follow um uh discussions and

proceedings in legislatures at the state level, at the national

level, like in Congress, in the Senate, you'll see a

lot of this um activists and organizers do a lot

of it when it comes to things like union activities,

things like pushing for collective action, pushing for more education,

pushing for public funding, academics do a lot of it

think tanks do a lot of it if you ever

heard of them, and you'll probably find some think tank

sourced writing when you go through things like CQ researcher

or when you're finding research for your your advocacy project.

Now, where is it?

Where does it appear in academic journals and newspapers in

op EDS, opinion editorial pages, in publications by advocacy groups

like think tanks.

And in books, you'll find whole books just advocating for

a solution to a problem and people read them that

can be popular even.

Um, now this kind of leads us to what we're

doing next, which I've just spoiled by opening the slide

soon, but to kind of get you in the mood

for some, some good, good advocacy.

We have an oral presentation component to this course.

And this is something where I know all of you

have just raised your hands collectively to the sky and

you're saying, thank you.

I've so been wanting to do an oral presentation.

Well, I've got you, I'm here for you.

Uh, this oral presentation actually should be pretty painless.

I'm not going to make you do it in front

of a big crowd.

You'll be doing it within a small group.

You don't even have to do it live.

I'm gonna let you pre record it.

Uh, and then you will be assessed and essentially graded

on it, not by me, but by your group members.

Um, so I'm taking kind of every every measure to

make this kind of chill kind of low pressure and

just know that if you're feeling nervous about doing an

oral presentation so is everybody else?

Part of the reason we do this just to kind

of give you the low down is to give you

practice with public speaking, give you practice with speaking even

to a smaller group which is something you will have

to do in your life.

But here's the more important thing for us.

Here's what's really going to help you out here.

The presentation portion of its kind of like we treat

pure editing, we treat your editing is something where We

can get more out of it.

Uh this presentation is the same because in preparing for

this presentation, in putting together slides in, getting ready to

speak for 5-7 minutes about your topic.

The preparation that you will have to do is actually

going to set you up really, really well to know

your topic a lot better and to be able to

advocate a lot better for it.

So take your time with that preparation for the presentation

really put in as much work as you can with

it, because this is meant to be a building block,

a stepping stone to the Ap project, not just something

we kind of kick out of bed and we forget

about, then we move on to the A.

P. This is really meant to help build it.

So, uh, nuts and bolts of it, 5 to 7

minutes, you'll be defining the problem and then showing two

or three kind of existing advocacy efforts, you'll make a

video presentation, it will be an audiovisual kind of combo.

So you'll have yourself talking and you'll have slides as

well, kind of like I'm doing here, uh, and you

will use at least four outside sources.

And there's a bunch more info on that on canvas

with a prompt for you guys in a full explanation

of it.

But just to kind of give you a preview of

where we're going.

So that is our introduction to advocacy.

I hope this was helpful, and we will be speaking

more soon.

Take care.

Bye bye.

Advocacy Intro- Tagert

Chapters

Audio TranscriptAuto-generated