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ENDING ZERO TOLERANCE
The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline Derek W. Black
SPREADABLE MEDIA
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green, with a new afterword
Calls for legal protections to curb excessive disciplinary actions in schools
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries
In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent behavior. Students from all demographic groups have suffered, but minority and special needs students have suffered the most. The effects of these policies are devastating. The risks associated with suspension and expulsion are so high that, as a practical matter, they amount to educational death penalties, not behavioral correction tools.
Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today’s ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called “user-generated content.” Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presidential tweets.
Derek Black, a former attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, weaves stories about individual students, lessons from social science, and the outcomes of courts cases to unearth a shockingly irrational system of punishment. Ending Zero Tolerance argues for constitutional protections to check abuses in school discipline and lays out theories by which courts should re-engage to enforce students’ rights and support broader reforms.
“Spreadable Media is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how media works today.” —Deep Media
“With the intent to address the toxic environment that zero tolerance perpetuates, Black outlines a convincing argument that the courts must step in to speed reform and ensure that all students are cared for equally.” —Library Journal Derek W. Black is is Professor of Law at the
University of South Carolina School of Law
“A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content.” —Kirkus Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of
Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Convergence Culture (NYU Press, 2006). Sam Ford is a research affiliate with the MIT
Program in Comparative Media Studies and an instructor for the Western Kentucky University Department of Communication. Joshua Green is a Solution Principal at Slalom
Consulting August 2018 256 pages | 6 x 9 Paper | 978-1-4798-2314-7 | $25.00S (£20.99) Cloth | 978-0-8147-3242-7 Current Affairs In the Families, Law, and Society series WW W.NY U P R ESS.ORG
April 2018 352 pages | 6 x 9 Paper | 978-1-4798-5605-3 | $19.00S (£15.99) Cloth | 978-0-8147-4350-8 Media Studies In the Postmillennial Pop series S PRI N G 2 018 • NYU PRE S S
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