tristeham posted:

lol

scorsese's brown moses biopic

speng31b posted:

ken burns

my_custom_username posted:

Why have people gotten so loving annoying about Starship Troopers recently

crepeface posted:

Part 1: What is media literacy?

Let's start from the beginning.



This is the Shannon and Weaver Communication Model.

(Note that this is a model of communication. This material will have a few models; the thing about models is they're simplified representations that explain one set of relationships by sacrificing detail elsewhere. I am also simplifying these models, as many of the real ones get very complex.)

Shannon and Weaver is a classic. It’s the foundation of entire fields of theory. But let’s put some flesh on these bones. Why do we care about this?


Example 1
DnD mod GreyJoyBastard loves classic film The Princess Bride, and has always thought it deserves more appreciation. He writes a long, meandering OP in CineD discussing his love of the film, and promoting his idea, an HD re-release shown in theaters.

GJB has a message he wants to convey, but he can't just beam it into people's heads- he has to encode it into a message into a form other people can translate. This post passes through the channel or medium of the forums.



Unfortunately, this medium has a source of noise, or distortion, that warps or limits the content of the message. All communications have sources of noise, but SA has an especially bad one: radium’s code. The post that is ultimately displayed is scrambled.



Several users see the new thread. Among them is Jeffrey of YOSPOS, who sees the post and reads it, decoding it in the context of some…detailed…children's cartoon fanfiction GJB had been posting earlier. He decides he's had enough. GreyJoyBastard is demodded and permabanned.



What have we learned?
First, what you mean isn’t the same as what you say, or what your audience hears. Your ideas or beliefs or intentions have to be converted into a message, which travels through a medium that further distorts its content, and then has to be interpreted by the recipient.


Second, to communicate your meaning, you have to think about how the message will be received. It’s not enough to care passionately about your beliefs. Hell, caring passionately can make it harder to communicate! You need to be able to anticipate how your message will be mediated to construct your message so that it conveys your desired idea and your audience will understand it. GreyJoyBastard didn’t have too much of a chance because of radium, but if he’d included a short message at the top of his post saying “I understand this is not like my usual posting, but I promise this thread is not related to my collection of My Little Pony alternate universe harem novellas”…it might have helped. He needed to think about how the forums could screw up his message, and how his target audience doesn’t share his well-known love of 1980s camp cinema and costumed horse romance.

If you don’t actively think about how your message will be mediated and received, and how it relates to your goals, you’re talking to yourself, not others. You're masturbating, not communicating. DPPH is closed. We try to discourage that practice these days.


Third and most importantly, all messages are mediated.
When we usually think of media, we think of getting information from an outside source, like a newspaper, that “mediates” the message. But every medium, every source, selects and influences how a message is shaped and ultimately received.

What’s more, messages are mediated many times over. When you see and post a tweet that contains a link to a news story, the reporter is a mediator for the message- but so is the source for the story, and the way they talked to the reporter, and the editor, and the newspaper’s social media account, and the person who retweets it, and the twitter format…and so are you, the person who posts that tweet on the forums.

When we think of media literacy, then it’s not just about understanding how the “news media” operates. We get information in all kinds of ways, and very little of it is only mediated by reporters. Media literacy is about understanding how the process of communication affects the messages we receive, and how we can better participate in communication, as message creators and receivers.

fizziester posted:

This is Media Literacy (TM) made manifest.

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

i don't have a lot of money like that and i'm stupid, what gives

loquacius posted:

https://twitter.com/BKWelles/status/1767531998770307247

aw frig aw dang it posted:

https://twitter.com/BKWelles/status/1767531998770307247

lumpentroll posted:

https://twitter.com/BKWelles/status/1767531998770307247

RealityWarCriminal posted:

https://twitter.com/literaturedevil/status/1765729927976890814

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

https://twitter.com/BKWelles/status/1767531998770307247

Al-Saqr posted:

literacy is for dorks and losers i will never ever read a book ever

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i will never live in a pod, eat a bug, or read a book

slave to my cravings posted:

cool black guy making a media cliteracy thread where he talks about the best way to eat pussy

Weka posted:

Some call it media literacy, I call it media hitleracy

i say swears online posted:

this is poor media literacy imo

Weka posted:

Some call it media literacy, I call it media hitleracy

Nix Panicus posted:

You know its true because an anonymous US State Department or CIA cutout agency official said it and a prestigious media outlet put their reputation on the line to uncritically copy/paste their statement. Only democracy can be so free and trustworthy.

RealityWarCriminal posted:

https://twitter.com/literaturedevil/status/1765729927976890814

Punished Turtle posted:

fizziester posted:

CalmHitler.jpg

crepeface posted:

Part 1: What is media literacy?

Let's start from the beginning.



This is the Shannon and Weaver Communication Model.

(Note that this is a model of communication. This material will have a few models; the thing about models is they're simplified representations that explain one set of relationships by sacrificing detail elsewhere. I am also simplifying these models, as many of the real ones get very complex.)

Shannon and Weaver is a classic. It�s the foundation of entire fields of theory. But let�s put some flesh on these bones. Why do we care about this?


Example 1
DnD mod GreyJoyBastard loves classic film The Princess Bride, and has always thought it deserves more appreciation. He writes a long, meandering OP in CineD discussing his love of the film, and promoting his idea, an HD re-release shown in theaters.

GJB has a message he wants to convey, but he can't just beam it into people's heads- he has to encode it into a message into a form other people can translate. This post passes through the channel or medium of the forums.



Unfortunately, this medium has a source of noise, or distortion, that warps or limits the content of the message. All communications have sources of noise, but SA has an especially bad one: radium�s code. The post that is ultimately displayed is scrambled.



Several users see the new thread. Among them is Jeffrey of YOSPOS, who sees the post and reads it, decoding it in the context of some�detailed�children's cartoon fanfiction GJB had been posting earlier. He decides he's had enough. GreyJoyBastard is demodded and permabanned.



What have we learned?
First, what you mean isn�t the same as what you say, or what your audience hears. Your ideas or beliefs or intentions have to be converted into a message, which travels through a medium that further distorts its content, and then has to be interpreted by the recipient.


Second, to communicate your meaning, you have to think about how the message will be received. It�s not enough to care passionately about your beliefs. Hell, caring passionately can make it harder to communicate! You need to be able to anticipate how your message will be mediated to construct your message so that it conveys your desired idea and your audience will understand it. GreyJoyBastard didn�t have too much of a chance because of radium, but if he�d included a short message at the top of his post saying �I understand this is not like my usual posting, but I promise this thread is not related to my collection of My Little Pony alternate universe harem novellas��it might have helped. He needed to think about how the forums could screw up his message, and how his target audience doesn�t share his well-known love of 1980s camp cinema and costumed horse romance.

If you don�t actively think about how your message will be mediated and received, and how it relates to your goals, you�re talking to yourself, not others. You're masturbating, not communicating. DPPH is closed. We try to discourage that practice these days.


Third and most importantly, all messages are mediated.
When we usually think of media, we think of getting information from an outside source, like a newspaper, that �mediates� the message. But every medium, every source, selects and influences how a message is shaped and ultimately received.

What�s more, messages are mediated many times over. When you see and post a tweet that contains a link to a news story, the reporter is a mediator for the message- but so is the source for the story, and the way they talked to the reporter, and the editor, and the newspaper�s social media account, and the person who retweets it, and the twitter format�and so are you, the person who posts that tweet on the forums.

When we think of media literacy, then it�s not just about understanding how the �news media� operates. We get information in all kinds of ways, and very little of it is only mediated by reporters. Media literacy is about understanding how the process of communication affects the messages we receive, and how we can better participate in communication, as message creators and receivers.

mawarannahr posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i will never live in a pod, eat a bug, or read a book

Megamissen posted:

any food with bones still in or shell still on make me feel weird, too much of a reminder that its an animal and also tends to be too messy to eat

Al! posted:

can i please have just one thread without people threatening to kill the mods

HashtagGirlboss posted:

I’ve never had more discomfort around food than watching my grandmother break open chicken bones and suck the marrow