The Culture Of Shut Up Analysis
Rhetorical Analysis on Two Selected Articles: ‘’The Culture of Shut-Up’’ and ‘’the Struggle Over Media Literacy’’
1.0 Article Introduction 1.1 The Culture of Shut-up
A recent article by Jon Lovett on The Atlantic 's site, "The Culture of Shut Up"—contends effectively that ensuring opportunity of discourse is presently up to each of us in this Internet age. As institutional watchmen lose their energy to control data, which ends up less demanding toward oneself designated individual guards to venture in. The very basic result becomes awful, flaring allegations and control tinged calls for statement of regret (or more regrettable) because of online substance. More so regardless of how dumb, unwarranted, preposterous or hostile we should …show more content…
The call for media education is in response not to a functionally illiterate media public, but to a public who are already voracious readers, viewers, and listeners. Media literacy is more than a matter of basic comprehension and is not a simple matter of reading media well, whether in the traditional Leavisite sense (of distinguishing between “good” and “bad” texts, see Leavis, 1950), or in the more deconstructive sense of understanding textual strategies, possibilities, or pleasures (Barthes, 1974, 1975, 1988). ). However, a textual analysis that takes place without examining the institutional, cultural, and economic conditions in which texts are produced and understood is necessarily …show more content…
They are tired of dismissing it as a mere distraction or else resenting it as the “evil twin” of universal education. Most of us, after all, like watching what we consider to be worthwhile, informative, or entertaining. Most educators are aware that the bumper-sticker invocation to “kill your television” has an ostrich-like impracticality. In the current political climate, the political options generally presented to deal with television have been, at best, fairly limited reactions to television’s perceived excesses. If we are to have a television system whose goals have more to do with public service than commerce - whether that means a greater diversity of images and representations, less commercial interruption, more documentary programming, or more educational children’s programs - we need to develop a citizenry that appreciates the politics of regulation and funding, to thereby imagine what television might be, and how the system might be changed to make it so. The challenge for media literacy, we would argue, is to make this possibility seem less
1.0 Article Introduction 1.1 The Culture of Shut-up
A recent article by Jon Lovett on The Atlantic 's site, "The Culture of Shut Up"—contends effectively that ensuring opportunity of discourse is presently up to each of us in this Internet age. As institutional watchmen lose their energy to control data, which ends up less demanding toward oneself designated individual guards to venture in. The very basic result becomes awful, flaring allegations and control tinged calls for statement of regret (or more regrettable) because of online substance. More so regardless of how dumb, unwarranted, preposterous or hostile we should …show more content…
The call for media education is in response not to a functionally illiterate media public, but to a public who are already voracious readers, viewers, and listeners. Media literacy is more than a matter of basic comprehension and is not a simple matter of reading media well, whether in the traditional Leavisite sense (of distinguishing between “good” and “bad” texts, see Leavis, 1950), or in the more deconstructive sense of understanding textual strategies, possibilities, or pleasures (Barthes, 1974, 1975, 1988). ). However, a textual analysis that takes place without examining the institutional, cultural, and economic conditions in which texts are produced and understood is necessarily …show more content…
They are tired of dismissing it as a mere distraction or else resenting it as the “evil twin” of universal education. Most of us, after all, like watching what we consider to be worthwhile, informative, or entertaining. Most educators are aware that the bumper-sticker invocation to “kill your television” has an ostrich-like impracticality. In the current political climate, the political options generally presented to deal with television have been, at best, fairly limited reactions to television’s perceived excesses. If we are to have a television system whose goals have more to do with public service than commerce - whether that means a greater diversity of images and representations, less commercial interruption, more documentary programming, or more educational children’s programs - we need to develop a citizenry that appreciates the politics of regulation and funding, to thereby imagine what television might be, and how the system might be changed to make it so. The challenge for media literacy, we would argue, is to make this possibility seem less