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• W333925009 abstract "Before most of us arrive at work, or school, or even this conference, we have been exposed to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of media messages. You might wake up to a clock radio, stumble downstairs to turn on the TV while perking some coffee. While sipping that coffee, you might read a newspaper, or surf the net on your computer. On your drive to work or school, you likely have a radio on in your car. You might see several billboards along the way. Once at the office, you could walk through a waiting room with magazines on a table. Then, you might check your e-mail before getting the bulk of your day. All of these media convey information, but also values, norms, sales pitches and images that go forming what I call By that term, I do not only mean that media companies are bringing you the messages. I also mean that the intended meaning of them has been carefully mediated, or deter-mined, by those within the media industry. They then are further mediated, or negotiated, by you as the receiver. Without a certain awareness, and careful, critical scrutiny, your own mediation process might become quite passive. You might reject the messages as propaganda or garbage, and thus miss some important elements of them. Research shows that more of you are likely to rather passively digest the messages, and perhaps in a rather unthinking way accept the information, values and norms as truths. It is my contention that we live and function very much within a mediated world--one that is of our own creation through our feelings, perception, etc. Increasingly over recent decades, media messages--ranging from advertising to entertainment to the news--feed and influence how we formulate those feelings and perceptions. Think of this world as a bubble around your head, filled with these images and values we have mentioned, that serves as a filter, in some cases even an obstruction, to your abstracting with the actual territory around you. I contend that if you buy into these mediated you can be setting yourself up for a great deal of stress, possible strains in relationships and a lack of tolerance for other world views and perceptions. Individual goals can become demands in this mediated world. Relationships can be judged by norms established in commercials or fictionalized media accounts rather than on their own strengths and weaknesses. Political and social views can be packaged and sold to you, as commodities. Other world views can be seen as threats, or obstacles, rather than simply diversity. If you get entrapped within your own mediated world, you can lose touch with your actual environment--nature, friends and family, your community, etc. When you lose touch with that environment, which we will refer interchangeably to as the territory, you risk losing touch with yourself. Thus, seeking what I label unmediated truths can become a very worthy and important effort. But, how do you seek such truths? I believe you can do so first by becoming more media literate, second by becoming more aware of your own abstracting process--from the sensory level all the way to the higher order levels of theories and world views--and third by recognizing differing structures between many mediated messages and the structure of the natural world. General semantics has been my guide in 20 years of developing and teaching media literacy. Using it as my theoretical foundation, as well as practical guide, I developed university courses, an outreach program to more than 30 middle and high schools in the U.S. and Australia, and have written books. I am using general semantics now to develop a program and book called, Seeking Unmediated Truths. In this paper, I will draw from observations made during the presentation of this program and numerous courses in media literacy. Two Worlds The concept of two worlds should not be new to those who have studied general semantics. …" @default.
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