The thing about watching enough reality television is that you start to lose perspective. For example, you may be completely aware of what you're looking for, and have a detailed outline spread out across...piece again. I don't know why everyone says critical theory is so challenging. Interrogating the text with Baudrillard and Foucault is much easier than trying to figure out how Steph does her hair

Macedo, Donaldo and Shirley R. Steinberg, eds. Media Literacy: a Reader. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Key Excerpts: Working with students as young as preschool age, Vivian Vasquez (2003) encourages... While I didn't change my approach to viewing in response to the theory, I find I'm much more conscious of what I'm doing than I use dto be. It's a weird experience. Productive, I think, but weird.

Wow, there is really no point in reading theory about media literacy that's more than ten years old, is there? It's been so revolutionized- by the growing internet, by a much tech-savvier culture, and...from watching TV shows where they force people into close quarters and have them systematically pick off the weak members of the herd. I don't really know what the point of this post is, actually