{"id":1474,"date":"2013-09-09T20:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2013-09-09T20:48:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:48:40","slug":"dont-diss-media-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/dont-diss-media-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Diss Media Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Neil Postman, of Teaching As A Subversive Activity fame, noted in a talk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x8VQGTzy2Yo\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">uploaded to&nbsp;Youtube<\/a>:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\t<em>.&hellip;if we had in this country serious.&hellip;media literacy, media education, media studies, whatever you would call it, beginning in the earliest grades and going on right through university I think we could develop a population of knowledgeable people with the perspective on media and technology that would be very useful for civil life. Now, if that doesn&rsquo;t happen then.&hellip;.we turn our national civic life over to Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner.&hellip;<\/em>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tGiven recent events here relating to the UK print media, Postman gives the lie to those on the right who decry subjects such as media studies as &lsquo;soft&rsquo; or &lsquo;easy&rsquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe real point of course is the power that the universities wield over the qualifications necessary to get into higher education &mdash; that they bear little reality to the requirements of life in the 21st century is obviously neither here nor there to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Postman, of Teaching As A Subversive Activity fame, noted in a talk uploaded to&nbsp;Youtube: .&hellip;if we had in this country serious.&hellip;media literacy, media education, media studies, whatever you would call it, beginning in the earliest grades and going on right through university I think we could develop a population of knowledgeable people with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[192,6,4],"tags":[193,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}