EAVI Conducts Media Literacy Workshop at the Autistic Women’s Retreat 2018
On 22 September, EAVI attended the 2018 Autistic Women’s Retreat in Oxfordshire, UK to hold a workshop on media literacy for 15 participants – all autistic women from Britain, USA and Sweden. The workshop focused on media literacy concepts, and specific issues facing autistic women in their relationship with the media, both in terms of representation and participation. The workshop opened with an introduction to media literacy, using EAVI’s tried and tested six questions and three examples formula, three media messages were broken down and analysed by way of example. As the last media [...]
Edward Said: Framed: the politics of stereotypes
About 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 been shaped throughout the 18th and 19th centuries by Orientalism, a mystified vision of an exotic Elsewhere, symmetrically different from and characterised by the Irrational (as opposed to the West as cradle of civilisation and rationality), continued to be heavily influenced by this ideal. In his view, [...]
Noam Chomsky, The Consent Factory
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 very much alive. One of the core concepts of Noam Chomsky’s theory, explored in this video, is that the media manufactures consent in dictatorships as well as in liberal democracies. And the process is very much the same. Media not [...]
My First Training: Media Literacy, Critical Thinking & Propaganda – ‘Lead On’ Youth Exchange, Canary Islands
EAVI's Luc Steinberg recently lead an Erasmus+ youth exchange in the Canary Islands to give training on media literacy, propaganda and critical thinking.
Manufacturing Consent | Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
About Manufacturing Consent is a documentary about Noam Chomsky's ideas and activism. However, it is his ideas regarding the media that take centre stage in the film. Namely, that the mass media operates as a form of thought control in a democratic society, with major news organizations systematically bending the truth to support the status quo. Governments have used both 'big lies' and 'big sticks' to captivate the responsiveness of ther people and attire their endorsements. Propoaganda is to democracy what explicit violence is to dictatorships, and in both cases these two instruments are so [...]
The Century of the Self (2002)
About The Century of the Self examines how those in power used Sigmund Freud's theories in order to control the 'crowd' in an era of mass-democracy. Propaganda and public relations techniques, as well as advertising are explored in detail through the lens of the 20th Century. Credits By Adam Curtis
How Did Hitler Rise To Power? (2016)
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 by Uncle Ginger
VIDEO: News Mashup is an Important Lesson in Media Literacy
This video edits together BBC footage of a parade in the UK with audio commentary of a parade in North Korea and asks "are the two countries really so different?"
