• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    A lot of people really fail to pick up media literacy skills, even if they’ve been to university. I think a lot of focus on STEM being the most important thing leads people to look down on and not engage with lit and media studies classes in a smuglord way.

    I know it took me an embarrassing amount of time into my young adult life to start engaging with the media I consume lol.

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      7 months ago

      My teachers tried, but I really think my media literacy was developed by brute force by polishing off a novel every week or so for several years.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        I took a film studies class in college and didn’t quite get it until years later bear-despair . Honestly, I was really struggling to find a social circle and figure out what I wanted to complete a degree in at that time, but STILL!