Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Real Country, Spectral Density, Metonymy
10 Dec 2016
School
Department
Professor
Document Summary
An examination of children"s culture unsettles the notion that the battles over knowledge, values, power, and what it means to be a citizen are to be located exclusively in the schools or in privileged sites of high culture. The bulk of learning takes place in their exterior environment to the classroom in terms of social understandings. The largely unquestioned assumption that animated films stimulate imagination and fantasy, reproduce an aura of innocence and wholesome adventure, and are good for kids. On other words, such films appeared to be vehicles of amusement, a highly regarded and sought after source of fun and joy for kids. The significance of animated films operates on many registers, but one of the most persuasive is the role they play as the new teaching machines . These entertainment sources are instilling a particular set of knowledges and ideas.
