Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
I suck at media literacy, but I have gotten better. I can’t imagine learning any of it without the internet, and so over the course of my live, my personal media literacy has improved. I imagine there’s lots of people like me.
On the other hand, I know a bunch of people who supposedly studied literary criticism at uni, and they’re mostly a bunch of liberal Zionist (including literal genocide apologia) and other such reactionary crap, and so I can only conclude that the main thing they are taught in these classes is propaganda and sophistry, and not how to actually critically read anything.
A couple of decades ago, these educated morons would have had a near monopoly on literary opinions, while the unwashed masses had no say. So, no, I do not think, at all, that people have gotten worse overall in media literacy.
Some people get a degree to learn, some people get a degree so they can insist that their interpretation of things is the “correct” one inherently because they are smarter than people who didn’t go to uni.
I think most people go to college these days for the higher wages / better jobs that supposedly comes with the degree. Whether you actually learn anything while there is secondary.
If money weren’t a concern, I think I’d spend a decade just taking whatever classes interested me.
But there’s no degree or accreditation I particularly want, so I ain’t about to pay for that shit.
For something like a degree in “media analysis” though? I doubt anyone studying that expects a job to come out of it.
When that’s what university is mostly pushing, that’s what people who don’t question learn.