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I break it down to what are you learning about human relationships in your media consumption, what attitudes, values and stereotypes are you consuming and how are you being taught to think about yourself? Most media is negative in all these areas because its primary goal is to sell products. In the early days of media literacy education back in the 80's the initial discussion regarding how kids are being affected by violent media found that kids have no problems telling the difference between cartoon/tv violence and real life. After all, you fall down in the playground you feel real pain accompanied by real blood - something the Warner Brothers never provided.

However repeated exposure to images that define self-esteem can re-script our brains subliminally to create things like anorexia and bulimia, and very twisted approaches to gender roles or racialized attitudes. My daughter recently did a speech at school regarding media stereotypes of ability and how mental health issues are portrayed in the media which results in marginalization. In the same class another kid did her speech on how positive Walt Disney was, completing skipping past his own racist, classist and twisted approach to gender. Media must be processed with youth, critically.

North American puritanical cultures have serious issues about sex instead to seeing it as natural, pleasurable and how to create equitable sexual relationships.

But in thinking about transgressive media I find that the news is more disturbing than any horror fiction we watch. If we accidentally tune in to national radio or television programs we have to deal with all manner of real human horror: beheadings, increasing sexual assaults on university campuses, moms killing their kids, dads killing their families, random shootings, knifings and the perpetual fear of terrorism in your hometown. Bleeding news has its own disturbance. I'd rather watch Night of The Living Dead with my kids and talk about racism in 1960's America than have to explain the news.

On a final note: teaching kids to be media producers instead of passive consumers is the great necessity of our times. It's right up there with, "Program, or be programmed!"

<blockquote data-quote="Burnt State" data-source="post: 215653" data-attributes="member: 5332">I break it down to what are you learning about human relationships in your media consumption, what attitudes, values and stereotypes are you consuming and how are you being taught to think about yourself? Most media is negative in all these areas because its primary goal is to sell products. In the early days of media literacy education back in the 80&#039;s the initial discussion regarding how kids are being affected by violent media found that kids have no problems telling the difference between cartoon/tv violence and real life. After all, you fall down in the playground you feel real pain accompanied by real blood - something the Warner Brothers never provided.However repeated exposure to images that define self-esteem can re-script our brains subliminally to create things like anorexia and bulimia, and very twisted approaches to gender roles or racialized attitudes. My daughter recently did a speech at school regarding media stereotypes of ability and how mental health issues are portrayed in the media which results in marginalization. In the same class another kid did her speech on how positive Walt Disney was, completing skipping past his own racist, classist and twisted approach to gender. Media must be processed with youth, critically.&nbsp;North American puritanical cultures have serious issues about sex instead to seeing it as natural, pleasurable and how to create equitable sexual relationships.But in thinking about transgressive media I find that the news is more disturbing than any horror fiction we watch. If we accidentally tune in to national radio or television programs we have to deal with all manner of real human horror: beheadings, increasing sexual assaults on university campuses, moms killing their kids, dads killing their families, random shootings, knifings and the perpetual fear of terrorism in your hometown. Bleeding news has its own disturbance. I&#039;d rather watch Night of The Living Dead&nbsp; with my kids and talk about racism in 1960&#039;s America than have to explain the news.On a final note: teaching kids to be media producers instead of passive consumers is the great necessity of our times. It&#039;s right up there with, &quot;Program, or be programmed!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burnt State, post: 215653, member: 5332"] I break it down to what are you learning about human relationships in your media consumption, what attitudes, values and stereotypes are you consuming and how are you being taught to think about yourself? Most media is negative in all these areas because its primary goal is to sell products. In the early days of media literacy education back in the 80's the initial discussion regarding how kids are being affected by violent media found that kids have no problems telling the difference between cartoon/tv violence and real life. After all, you fall down in the playground you feel real pain accompanied by real blood - something the Warner Brothers never provided. However repeated exposure to images that define self-esteem can re-script our brains subliminally to create things like anorexia and bulimia, and very twisted approaches to gender roles or racialized attitudes. My daughter recently did a speech at school regarding media stereotypes of ability and how mental health issues are portrayed in the media which results in marginalization. In the same class another kid did her speech on how positive Walt Disney was, completing skipping past his own racist, classist and twisted approach to gender. Media must be processed with youth, critically. North American puritanical cultures have serious issues about sex instead to seeing it as natural, pleasurable and how to create equitable sexual relationships. But in thinking about transgressive media I find that the news is more disturbing than any horror fiction we watch. If we accidentally tune in to national radio or television programs we have to deal with all manner of real human horror: beheadings, increasing sexual assaults on university campuses, moms killing their kids, dads killing their families, random shootings, knifings and the perpetual fear of terrorism in your hometown. Bleeding news has its own disturbance. I'd rather watch [I]Night of The Living Dead [/I]with my kids and talk about racism in 1960's America than have to explain the news. On a final note: teaching kids to be media producers instead of passive consumers is the great necessity of our times. It's right up there with, "Program, or be programmed!" [/QUOTE]

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