Three things I learned about storytelling are stories can be told or written to show power, stories can break or repair dignity and that stereotypes are "incomplete", but the most important thing I learned is never have a single story.
"When young people internalize these ideas, it's an effect referred to as self-objectification, which involves adopting a perspective of turning one's physical self into an object." Pg. 106
I have spent a great deal of my life making sure my physical self was not an object. I am currently teaching in a high school after being in several elementary schools for four years prior to this. The culture shock for me was amazing. I have always taught in a high school except for this four years and when I worked in private business. I really work hard to restrain myself from shaking sense into the girls I see that have achieved self-objectification.
"Young men and women may tend to evaluate their own lives and their own social relationships in terms of the sheer entertainment value, treating friends as dramatic objects to be used or abused for one's own amusement." Pg. 116
Again the "object". This really bothers me that people are treated as objects. Objects are things to collect, throw away, use, destroy, etc. However objects can also be something you love, take care of and cherish. It is hard for me to understand or relate to this younger culture.
"That's why some teachers use instructional approaches borrowed from anticorporate activism to expose the exploitive practices of consumer culture and thereby produce reactance, the psychological response that occurs when people get angry when they feel they are being manipulated." Pg. 118
I think it is interesting that we prepare our students for jobs such as advertising and then deconstruct the media that they produce. What a Catch 22!
Hobbs, Renee. Digital and media literacy: Connecting culture and classroom. Corwin Press, 2011.
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