The document discusses the construction and interpretation of media messages, highlighting five key principles related to media literacy. It emphasizes that media representations contain embedded values and are influenced by economic and political contexts. The document also references various events and hashtags associated with social justice movements.

1. STL/
Ferguson/
NYC
#blacklivesmatter

2. Tower Grove East
#vonderritmyers

9. MEDIA LITERACY

10. Eagleton Courthouse
#ayotzinapa

11. Media messages
are constructed.
Principle #1

12. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

13. Messages are representations
of reality with embedded
values and points of view.
Principle #2

14. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

15. Each form of media uses
a unique set of rules to
construct messages.
Principle #3

16. Individuals interpret media
messages and create their
own meaning based on
personal experience.
Principle #4

17. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

18. Media are driven by profit
within economic and political
contexts.
Principle #5

19. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

22. Clayton, MO
#icantbreathe
#ericgarner
#michaelbrown

25. Ferguson, MO
#michaelbrown

32. Eagleton Courthouse
#ericgarner

34. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

35. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

36. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

37. Christian Gooden, STL Post-Dispatch

38. Central West End (CWE)
#ericgarner die-in

39. David Carson, STL Post-Dispatch

40. Next steps?
#lakeshoredrive
abc7chicago