Media isn’t just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it’s also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people — a range of people, making a range of decisions, and earning a range of different paychecks to do it. Those decisions matter and understanding how money affects those decisions is an essential component of media literacy.
Introduction: Your Media on Money 0:00
Let’s say you’re a movie director 1:04
Media is made 2:01
Purpose, or why media is created 2:30
Focus, or what media is made about 3:44
Thought Bubble: Representation 4:30
Media and Stereotypes 6:24
Money and the perpetuation of stereotypes 6:57
Credits 9:44
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Resources:
“What is Representation?” BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.com/education/guides/z9fx39q/revision
“The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media” by Stuart Hall. Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text Reader. https://blog.richmond.edu/watchingthewire/files/2015/08/The-Whites-of-Their-Eyes.pdf
“The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” by Theodor Adorno https://web.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/files/pdf/adorno_culture_industry.pdf
“If It’s Hard to Read, It’s Hard to Do: Processing Fluency Affects Effort Prediction and Motivation” Psychological Science https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/780/docs/08_ps_song___schwarz_effort.pdf
“A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do” Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-recipe-for-motivation/
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