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10. Chapter 10
Media Literacy Activity: Books in Our Lives
Media Literacy Activity, 11th Edition:
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Media Literacy Activity:
Books in Our Lives
Activity Objective: In this activity, you will apply the critical process to examine how
people discover books and their relationship to books.
Pre-Activity Instructions: Identify ten friends and/or classmates that you want to
interview about their relationship to books.
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Reviewing the Critical Process
Developing a media-literate critical perspective involves mastering five overlapping stages
that build on one another. Let’s review the critical process you’ll be using below:
Description: paying close attention, taking notes, and researching the
subject under study
Analysis: discovering and focusing on significant patterns that emerge
from the description stage
Interpretation: asking and answering “What does that mean?” and “So what?”
questions about one’s findings
Evaluation: arriving at a judgment about whether something is good, bad,
or mediocre, which involves subordinating one’s personal taste to the critical “bigger picture” resulting
from the first three stages
Engagement: taking some action that connects our critical perspective with
our role as citizens to question our media institutions, adding our own voice to the process of shaping the
cultural environment
Description
Interview ten of your friends and/or classmates about their relationship to books. Ask them the following
questions:
- Do you read books at all? Why or why not?
- How do you choose the books you read? Would you read more books if they were recommended to you?
- How have books made a difference in your life? What kinds of books are they (e.g., novels,
non-fiction books, religious books, children’s books)? How did you get these books? Were they recommended by
family, friends, and/or teachers? Did you buy them? Get them from the library? Received as a gift?
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Analysis
With the interview responses in mind, let’s explore what patterns emerge regarding your
friends’ and classmates’ relationship with books.
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Interpretation
Now, let’s explore the meaning of the patterns you found.
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Evaluation
Next, we’ll examine your view as you assess the trends and forecast of the publishing industry.
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Engagement
Let’s take action! Moving forward, engage with books and the publishing industry in a new way. Here are some suggestions:
- One of the best places to read about past and current book titles is the Barnes & Noble Review
(http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review). Here you can access titles and reviews by subject, store
recommendations, award winners, great new writers (and its archive), various best-seller lists, and so on. You
can also read the New York Times Book Review (http://www.nytimes.com/section/books) or the London Review of
Books (http://www.lrb.co.uk). Choose some titles. Read!
- Start a book club with some friends.
- Carefully choose a book to give to a friend as a present.
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