Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class; the politics of news
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 a time when diversity was not perceived yet a an enriching factor for society. Credits Narrated by Natalie Jeffers, co-founder Black Lives Matter UK Designed and animated by Ilze Juhnevica & Zahra Warsame [...]
Marshall McLuhan Digital Prophecies: The medium is the message
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 (from the telegraph to...social media), also our perception of the world and of ourselves is shaped by this shift. Credits Narrated by Alex Chow, student leader 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella movement Directed and animated by Daniel [...]
