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6. Chapter 6
Media Literacy Activity: Radio in Your Life
Media Literacy Practice Activity
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Media Literacy Activity:
Radio in Your Life
Activity Objective: In this activity, you will apply the critical process
to examine how radio fits into your and your friends’ lives.
Pre-Activity Instructions: Identify ten friends and/or classmates that
you want to interview about their use of radio.
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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 use of radio. Ask them the following
questions:
- How often do you listen to radio?
- What type of device(s) do you use to access radio? For example, plug-in radio set, transistor
radio, clock radio, stereo receiver, computer, smart phone, service from cable TV, home music system (e.g.
Sonos), your car, etc.?
- Where do you typically listen to the radio? For example, home, commuting, while exercising, etc.?
- When do you typically listen to the radio (e.g., morning, afternoon, evening, weekdays, weekends,
only while in the car, etc.?)
- What are your favorite radio genres (e.g., music, talk, news and information, sports, podcasts,
etc.)?
- What are your favorite stations or channels? Why?
- Why do you listen to the radio?
- How does radio fit into your life?
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Analysis
With the interview responses in mind, let’s explore what patterns emerge regarding your
friends’ and classmates’ use of radio.
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Interpretation
Through the following questions, interpret the meaning of the patterns you found to make
connections to wider trends in radio usage in American society and culture.
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Evaluation
Next, evaluate and write about the radio industry.
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Engagement
Let’s take action! Moving forward, use what you have learned to engage with radio in a
different way. Here are some suggestions to get involved:
- Listen to different types of radio. How are AM, FM, satellite, and Internet radio different?
- Check out different genres (listen to talk radio or podcasts if you don’t already listen to them;
try out music
genres that you haven’t listened to).
- Get together with friends to listen to the radio in the same way you might get together to watch
television.
Pay attention to your friends’ and your reactions as you listen as a group.
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