Short Archives - EAVI https://eavi.eu/category/short/ Information and Democracy Fri, 28 May 2021 17:29:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eavi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-Untitled-design-32x32.webp Short Archives - EAVI https://eavi.eu/category/short/ 32 32 Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class; the politics of news https://eavi.eu/stuart-hall-race-gender-class-the-politics-of-news/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:39:18 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12189 About Mainstream media wield an enormous power in shaping perceptions of race, ethnicity, gender and class. The job of the media theorist is exposing and questioning the ideology that lies behind such representations. This idea was first explored by the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart hall, who studied and worked in the UK at [...]

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]]> Noam Chomsky, The Consent Factory https://eavi.eu/noam-chomsky-the-consent-factory/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:27:59 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12195 About Are we really sure that concepts such as propaganda only apply to countries like North Korea or China, and that Western civilisation is, on the other side, the gatekeepers of freedom and democracy? The truth is that, even in the absence of a state media apparatus, phenomena like propaganda are present and [...]

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]]> Marshall McLuhan Digital Prophecies: The medium is the message https://eavi.eu/marshall-mcluhan-digital-prophecies-the-medium-is-the-message/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:59:00 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12199 About McLuhan does not analyse the content, but the form in which this content is delivered to us by the media. Since the medium is the message, if you don’t understand the medium you don’t understand the message either. The form informs identity, the ways we perceive ourselves, and since the form changes [...]

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]]> How Did Hitler Rise To Power? (2016) https://eavi.eu/how-did-hitler-rise-to-power-2016/ Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:10:21 +0000 https://eavi.eu/?p=12212 About A short (5 minutes) Ted Ed video that demonstrates the fragility of democracy when fears, unrest, ignorance and bigotry are stoked. Made by Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard, there is also a lesson plan at the Ted Ed site here. Credits Lesson by Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard Animation [...]

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