Media Literacy Challenge: Recognizing Cultural Values (Baran, 2021, p. 25).
“Media-literate people develop an understanding of media content as a text that provides insight into our culture and our lives, and they have an awareness of the impact of media on the individual and society. So, challenge your own media literacy skills. You can do this exercise with a parent or another person older than you [if available], or you can speculate after using the Internet to view movies and television shows from 20 years ago. Compare your childhood heroes and heroines with those of someone older [or younger] (Baran, 2021, p. 25).
What differences are there between the generations in what you consider heroic qualities (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
What are some similarities and differences between the heroic qualities you and people from an earlier generation identify (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
Are the good qualities of your personal heroes something you can find in today’s movies or TV (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
If so, where on TV or in film can you find the qualities you consider heroic (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
Which cultural values, attitudes, and beliefs, if any, do you think have influenced how heroes and heroines have changed throughout the last few decades (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
How have the media helped establish the values you identify as important qualities in people (Baran, 2021, p. 25)?
