For project 3, I have decided to participate in the public debate on Rolling Stone's UVA rape story that was published and then retracted in late last November and early December.
Series of focusing questions to reframe the controversy as you prepare to enter the public conversation:
Who is involved in the controversy?
1. What more should we know about the author, Sabrina Erdley?
2. What can we learn about Jackie's friends whom she contacted after the alleged attack?
3. How does the article portray these friends?
4. Who from Rolling Stone played a major role in the controversy?
5. Who was the accused attacker who instigated the alleged gang rape?
6. Who on the UVA campus is prevalent in this controversy?
What is up for debate in this controversy?
1. What was true in Jackie's story?
2. What was false in Jackie's story?
3. Where, specifically, did Rolling Stone go wrong?
4. How is Rolling Stone in some ways a victim?
5. What more can we learn about the role ethics has played in this controversy?
When has this controversy unfolded?
1. What is significant about the fact that Jackie reported her rape more than a year after she says it occurred?
2. When were other articles that were written about this controversy published? Why? Is this significant?
3. Recently after the retraction of the UVA rape article, were other reported rape and sexual assaults reported on or not?
4. How long after the article was published was it retracted?
5. When was the last article written about this controversy? Are they still being written?
Where has this controversy unfolded?
1. What more can we learn about how this controversy has changed life on UVA's campus?
2. What more can we learn about how this controversy has changed life on other college campuses?
3. What more can we learn about how this has effected the lives of other rape and sexual assault victims in the US?
4. How has this affected the fraternity of Phi Kappa Psi in the US?
5. How has this controversy effected Rolling Stone?
How has this controversy has unfolded?
1. How did Erdley reach out to Jackie?
2. How did Erdley even know to contact Jackie in the first place?
3. How has UVA's community reacted to this alleged attack?
4. How did Phi Kappa Psi respond to this alleged attack?
5. How has the public responded to this alleged attack?
6. How has Rolling Stone responded to this controversy?
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Who is involved in the controversy?
1. What more should we know about the author, Sabrina Erdley?
2. What can we learn about Jackie's friends whom she contacted after the alleged attack?
3. How does the article portray these friends?
4. Who from Rolling Stone played a major role in the controversy?
5. Who was the accused attacker who instigated the alleged gang rape?
6. Who on the UVA campus is prevalent in this controversy?
What is up for debate in this controversy?
1. What was true in Jackie's story?
2. What was false in Jackie's story?
3. Where, specifically, did Rolling Stone go wrong?
4. How is Rolling Stone in some ways a victim?
5. What more can we learn about the role ethics has played in this controversy?
When has this controversy unfolded?
1. What is significant about the fact that Jackie reported her rape more than a year after she says it occurred?
2. When were other articles that were written about this controversy published? Why? Is this significant?
3. Recently after the retraction of the UVA rape article, were other reported rape and sexual assaults reported on or not?
4. How long after the article was published was it retracted?
5. When was the last article written about this controversy? Are they still being written?
Where has this controversy unfolded?
1. What more can we learn about how this controversy has changed life on UVA's campus?
2. What more can we learn about how this controversy has changed life on other college campuses?
3. What more can we learn about how this has effected the lives of other rape and sexual assault victims in the US?
4. How has this affected the fraternity of Phi Kappa Psi in the US?
5. How has this controversy effected Rolling Stone?
How has this controversy has unfolded?
1. How did Erdley reach out to Jackie?
2. How did Erdley even know to contact Jackie in the first place?
3. How has UVA's community reacted to this alleged attack?
4. How did Phi Kappa Psi respond to this alleged attack?
5. How has the public responded to this alleged attack?
6. How has Rolling Stone responded to this controversy?
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