Sunday, August 24, 2014
Module One Discussion and Reading
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tzPUw2-aTw_LJxn-iElXvGvoB1VVITMyurwPfCnqZro/edit?usp=sharing
To what extent do you agree with Neil Postman?
I agree completely with Neil Postman- in that we are always being thrown into a deep pile of information and visuals and we have to sift our way through it.
Neil Postman delivered this speech in 1969. How do you think he might feel about "the art of crap-detection" now given recent advancements in digital technologies?
He would feel this even more so. I think he would need to give this speech times ten. That is just to get the kids attention.
What did the video make you think about or feel?
When she first came out I wondered what the catch was. I love TED videos and knew it must have an amazing message. I completely agree that we judge everyone by how they dress and what they look like.
How does it support Neil Postman's concerns about "crap-detection".
It comes down to the saying that I grew up knowing- never judge a book by its cover. I am also glad I have boys.
Then, tell us how this video effects your understanding of why it is important to teach CRITICAL media literacy and not just MEDIA literacy in-and-out of school. Put your response with three quotes from the reading.
We need to judge by content not looks. "A website can look wonderful and legit but may have false or blown up data. It takes a comprehensive approach that would teach critical skills and how to use media as instruments of social communication and change. The technologies of communication are becoming more and more accessible to young people and ordinary citizens, and can be used to promote education, democratic self- expression, and social progress. Technologies that could help produce the end of participatory democracy, by transforming politics into media spectacles and the
battle of images and by turning spectators into passive consumers, could also be used to help invigorate democratic debate and participation."(pg. 373, Kellner & Share).
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I really like that you highlighted media can be used to increase democratic participation or to create spectacles that serve miseducate the public. Great connections between the video and the reading! I am most disturbed by how exploited Cameron was as a child.
ReplyDeletehaha, I noticed that you said you are glad you have boys. I grew up with three older brothers (four boys, I know, how the house still stands I do not know), and I thought I might speak on that briefly.
ReplyDeleteMen are subject to a different kind of judgement and oversight in our society, in my opinion. The phrase "be a man" has been muttered to me so many times in my life that I cannot even begin to go over the situations. There is this expectation on how we should handle situations, the tasks we should do, how we should dress, and what interests we should have, just as there are the same judgments and expectations for women. One of my older brothers would get bullied in school because he was part of the counter culture in the late 90's and other boys in school would call him a "fag." Another of my older brothers was one of the bullies, and he beat up on kids who were seen as different, or less manly. Why? I feel that social media and its message on how we should look, act, and perform, are at least partially to blame. The fact that we are packed full of angst and testosterone at that age probably doesn't help also :) but then again, maybe that makes us more susceptible to media?