Patrick Usmar

Where are all the woke kids? lived experience first: re-sequencing media literacy practice to explore gender performativity and media with 17- to 18-year-olds

Media literacy education – typically embedded within secondary school Media Studies classes – routinely begins by analysing popular culture texts to reveal how gender identity is represented. By contrast, this study starts with the day-to-day experiences and opinions of young people, asking them who they admire, and th...