AP Seminar: Albany High School Social Media Case Study Notes

Vocabulary flashcards covering the legal, historical, psychological, and institutional lenses of the Albany High School social media incident.

The Tinker Test

A legal framework evaluated under the Legal/Ethical Lens to determine whether off-campus speech and private digital posts create a foreseeable risk of substantial campus disruption.

Historical & Cultural Contextual Interludes

Standalone expository chapters that pause the main narrative to analyze the broader historical and cultural mechanisms of racial tropes, hate symbols, and pseudoscientific racial theories.

Race Realism

Pseudoscientific racial theories examined alongside historical anti-Black imagery and online misinformation to explain modern racial harm beyond adolescent interpersonal conflicts.

Scientific Racism

A topic reviewed in Part 11 (alongside 'DNA, IQ, and the NFL') under Historical, Cultural, and Scientific Lenses to contextualize racial harm and pseudoscientific theories.

Account Followers

Stakeholders named specifically as Eren, Murphy, Wyatt, and Jon, whose behaviors are examined through peer pressure, digital detachment, and bystander dynamics.

SEEDS

A restorative justice mediation program whose session in Room 104 involving the account creator, account followers, and targeted Black female students failed.

Room 104

The specific campus location where the failed SEEDS restorative justice mediation session took place.

Poe's Law

A concept reviewed in Part 6 under Psychological and Social Lenses exploring online meme culture, unstated assumptions, and how 'edgy humor' functions.

The Bystander Effect

A social psychological dynamic reviewed in Part 7 that examines stakeholder rationalizations, peer pressure, and missed opportunities to intervene.

Disciplinary Matrices

Administrative policy tools (referenced in 'The Matrix is a Guide') used by school leaders alongside state education codes to determine institutional responses and expulsions.

Principal Anderson

An Albany High School administrator responsible for navigating campus disciplinary matrices, state education codes, campus walkouts/sit-ins, and board hearings.

Superintendent Williams

An institutional district official who issued emergency community communications and guided the district's administrative response.

AUSD

The school district entity (Albany Unified School District) that released official administrative messages, held public school board hearings, and addressed student walkouts and sit-ins.