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Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class; the politics of news

EAVI — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:39:35 +0000

Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class; the politics of news 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, [...]

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Edward Said: Framed: the politics of stereotypes

EAVI — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:35:55 +0000

Edward Said: Framed: the politics of stereotypes Are we sure that the perception that we have about the East (and about the Middle East and the different struggles it is going through) is neutral and unbiased? The Palestinian academician Said advanced the hypothesis that the European perspective on the East, that has [...]

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Marshall McLuhan Digital Prophecies: The medium is the message

EAVI — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:59:31 +0000

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 (from the telegraph [...]

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The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies: Doug Belshaw TEDxWarwick

EAVI — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:24:11 +0000

The Essential elements of digital literacies: Doug Belshaw at TEDxWarwick Media literacy can be understood in different ways: there are several ways to approach media education. The starting point, however, must always be the traditional concept of ‘literacy’; therefore, the traditional definition of it as it was defined back in 1957 is still [...]

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Ways of Seeing – John Berger, BBC 1972

EAVI — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:56:51 +0000

Ways of Seeing - John Berger (1972) Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC series which later became a book. It is a seminal work of art criticism for the postmodern age. John Berger explores the ways in which we view art with a critical eye and challenges traditional art criticism. [...]

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A Journey to Media Literacy 1 (SHORT VERSION)

EAVI — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:01:56 +0000

A shortened version of the first episode of Jack's Media Literacy adventure.

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