As an admittedly non-Dr. Who fan, I had some thoughts about the new doctor and classroom implications:
There are important media literacy lessons that teachers should be looking at regarding nerd culture and mass media… #schmiteracies https://t.co/VtFKxvrMZd
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. Yeah, it’s not shocking that dudes on the internet are mad about this (“first they came for our ghostbusters…”) #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. Spoiler alert: representation matters seeing (or not seeing) oneself in texts is and feels personal. #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. at the same time, marginal progress is … marginal. the invisibility of POC, trans fans, etc is just as damning #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. (and the chasm between some forms of marginalization & others are more unlikely to be bridged in current media contexts.). #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. And so literacies of fandom, capitalism, and representation today lead to difficult pedagogical choices. #schmtieracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. reading a transmedia narrative of Dr. Who is reading historically, culturally, and narratively #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
.But it’s also about reading what representation means & who is a part of ongoing dialogue. Reading is being in conversation. #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. There’s excitement, backlash, backlash to backlash… it’s easy to get whiplash as a nerd concerned about representation. #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. teaching #literacies & pop. culture today means helping youth navigate these conversations, pushing on more visibility, … #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. AND it means not falling into capitalist trap of expecting corporations to lead us to liberatory representation and voice. #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017
. At the end of the day, we’re talking about an international corporate product we consume on a television screen. #schmiteracies
— Antero Garcia (@anterobot) July 16, 2017