1. Media & Information Literacies
(MIK)
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
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Bonnie Stewart
University of Prince Edward Island
@bonstewart
#MIK2015LIN

2. Stories of Knowledge

3. Stories of Empire
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/dynamosquito/3936190483

4. Stories of Change
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5. Knowledge Abundance
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6. "For the first time in human history,
two related propositions are true. One,
it no longer is possible to store
within the human brain all of the
information that a human needs.
Second, it no longer is necessary to
store within the human brain all of the
information that humans need.
Education needs to be geared toward
the handling of data rather than the
accumulation of data.”
- Berlo, 1975

7. Abundance =
integration
of media into
daily life

8. …and education.

10. Abundance can become overload
h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/striaEc/2191408271/

11. Structure of Abundance =
Networks

12. We are all network nodes,
able to communicate messages
to other nodes
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5209796269

13. But some nodes are more
equal than others.

14. Empire
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15. Empires are constructed from
money, territory, and information.
In the globalized 21st century,
not all empires are geopolitical.

16. What places do you live?
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17. Who owns the places you
live?

19. 21st Century Fox
• Fox Broadcasting
• 20th Century Fox Film
• 20th Century Fox TV
• Fox Sports
• Fox News Channel
• Fox Business Network
• National Geographic
Channels
• BSkyB
= $73.45 billion
News Corps 2013
• Dow Jones
• Wall Street Journal
• Harper Collins
• New York Post
• The Australian
• The Herald Sun
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Times
• The Sun
= $9.44 billion

20. Empire has effects

21. Empire & education

22. In an era of networks,
we the people have the capacity
to speak back to empire.

24. What does ‘fair’ mean when
critiquing a position of
empire?

27. Messages are constructed

28. Some messages have WAY
more power & money behind
them, and way more reach.
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/susivinh/6117590884

29. Key Media Literacy Questions
1. Who created this message?
2. What creative techniques are
being used to attract my
attention?
3. Who is the audience?
4. What values and points of view
are represented and omitted?
5. Who gains profit or power if I
accept this message?

30. Change
h"ps://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8491100250

31. It was once enough to have
– and teach – literacies
for broadcast messages

32. New tech + old approaches
new literacies

33. In abundance, the power
relations of #4 #5 are more
complex

34. What stories are we telling?
What stories are we buying?

35. Analyze All The Things!
hp://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/

36. Represented? Omitted?
Profit? Power?

37. Represented? Omitted?
Profit? Power?

38. More later.
To Speak Back:
bstewart@upei.ca
@bonstewart