November 1, 2017
Studies in Popular Culture-EDUC 3900
In the article Popular Media, Education, and Resistance (2006), Stack and Kelly look at media as an institution that “…perpetuates various social inequalities” while also being the place where social inequalities can be cha...
October 25, 2017
Toys are not just things that children play with, they also do a great deal of gender positioning. In the chapter, Toys, in the book Mythologies Roland Barthes looks at how toys mimic the adult world in miniature form. “There exist, for instance, dolls which urinate; t...
October 10, 2017
David Wiesner’s version of The Three Little Pigs, takes the original story of The Three Little Pigs but gives it an interesting twist in the narrative. This book is essentially taking a very popular children’s book and appropriating it to encompass other children’s boo...
September 26, 2017
We live in a society that is dominated by imposed representations that are based on people’s identity. Take gender for instance. Media representations are constantly telling us what is ‘normal’ based on our gender. The problem lies when individuals start to believe and...
September 19, 2017
New Literacies are new ways of communication which have developed with the introduction of new technologies. With New Literacies, literacy is no longer focussed solely on reading and writing skills as in traditional literacy. “By drawing attention to the need to commun...