The Media and Us: Break-Out #1: Representation, Access, and Power

Presented by City Lights in conjunction with Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective

Break-Out #1: Representation, Access, and Power

This session extends the discussion began with the plenary session. The establishment media platform, the powerful, those who control political, economic, and other major social institutions. Here, it is key that young audiences engage in linguistic and structural analysis to detect biases along intersectional lines while deconstructing corporate and state narratives that work to marginalize diverse populations along race, gender, LQBTQIA+ issues, class matters, and more. Critical media literacy illuminates a path supportive of civil and human rights, it diversifies representation in media and broadens access to media that center power in we the people, not elite entities.

with Reina Robinson, Kate Horgan, avram anderson, Maria Cecilia Soto

This event is part of the day-long symposium style event titled The Media and Us: Critical Media Literacy and Engaged Politics comprised of seven sessions aimed to explore critical media literacy.

At a time when pundits and politicians alike promote fearful understandings of “fake news” and the negative impacts of social media, this symposium aims to provide participants with the skills to resist the lures of sensational disinformation and omnipresent advertising. Drawing on their decades of teaching experience, the speakers will introduce key ideas to critical media literacy, urging us to look beneath the surface and beyond the screens in order to create an honest, accurate, brighter, and more inclusive future. With engaging hands-on exercises readers learn to question, critique, and talk back to biased messaging, both subtle and overt, that the media feed them daily. Critical media literacy becomes a call to action, urging all of us to engage with the media landscape and become a well-informed citizenry.

All sessions are free but require registration.

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This event was made possible by the support of the City Lights Foundation. Visit this link to learn more: https://citylights.com/foundation/