This author Linda Christensen argues that “Our society’s
culture industry colonizes their minds and teaches them how to act, live, and
dream.”
Christensen describes how the books and movies that we read
and watch in our young age are the “secret education” from where we are taught
to live our lives a certain way which also causes social control between sex,
race, and social class. For example when she says “the stereotype and worldview
illustrated in this stories become accepted knowledge.” The YouTube video we
watched in class support her statement, how some of the students listed few bad
things when the teacher ask them to writes words to come to mind when they hear
the word gay. When the teacher asked from where they got that information, some
said movies, and news. One of movies shown in that video where the main
character realized he kissed a guy and exaggeratedly starts cleaning his mouth
illustrate a discrimination against gay people. Kids who watch that movie and
can see a gay couple kissing and might see it as something nasty because that’s
what they gain from the movie.
Some people might also argue that media doesn’t affect their
lives or has no influence on them like I did a minute ago before reading this
article. But its funny how I try to dress and act like celebrities that make
commercials on social media for brands like Nike, Adidas and others. While
reading the few questions that Christensen makes her student keep in mind while
watching cartoons or movies I realize that those are stuffs that can gap a
person from another, or change the way people look or think of you. One of the
messages of this article is that teachers can make a difference the same way
Christensen did with her students, which they ended up being very passionate
about how media is affecting our society.
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