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.
Let’s get started! Click the forward and backward arrows to navigate through the slides. You may also click the above outline button to skip to certain slides.
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
Interview ten of your friends and/or classmates about their relationship to books. Ask them the following questions:
Use the space below to answer the following question.
With the interview responses in mind, let’s explore what patterns emerge regarding your friends’ and classmates’ relationship with books.
Use the space below to answer the following question.
Now, let’s explore the meaning of the patterns you found.
Use the space below to answer the following question.
Next, we’ll examine your view as you assess the trends and forecast of the publishing industry.
Use the space below to answer the following question.
Let’s take action! Moving forward, engage with books and the publishing industry in a new way. Here are some suggestions:
Use the space below to answer the following question.