@greg_jenner @el_hembo THREAD:
An example of subject-snobbery at best. A line trotted out by those not working in education, and probably never sat in a media lesson.
When you have to denigrate the achievements of others you have to ask why? What is the motivation?
An example of subject-snobbery at best. A line trotted out by those not working in education, and probably never sat in a media lesson.
When you have to denigrate the achievements of others you have to ask why? What is the motivation?
@greg_jenner @el_hembo Is it in order to try to assert your own superiority? It smacks of ignorance and exposes surely some sort of fear.
What might that fear be? Fear that someone with a media grade is perhaps going to go into HE? get a degree? improve their social mobility & that of their loved ones?
What might that fear be? Fear that someone with a media grade is perhaps going to go into HE? get a degree? improve their social mobility & that of their loved ones?
@greg_jenner @el_hembo And the subject itself? Not “proper”? Never mind the idea that the actual study of the media is multi-disciplinary, like many of the arts and humanities. The parallels with English Literature (is that “proper”) are quite obvious... off the top of my head:
@greg_jenner @el_hembo the study of texts; the reading of and understanding of the works of theorists and -isms; the reading of texts through the lens of various theories ie application of theory in order to analyse texts. And that’s one element of the subject in relation to one other subject.
@greg_jenner @el_hembo Never mind the critical literacy skills that are essential in our digital society, and which librarians and libraries have been banging on about for decades.
@greg_jenner @el_hembo Critiquing media studies is to critique a whole body of academic study, of cultural and social thinkers and theorists, and is shorthand for educational elitism. #mediastudies #media
