“it’s about learning with media, rather than learning about media.”
This weeks ‘readings’ really accentuated the changing of media in modern day society. As media and the ways we communicate have changed, so too does the way we ingest and teach media. At least this is the matter addressed by David Gauntlett in his new book ‘Making Media Studies’.
Whilst “media studies today consists of a diminished blob of the old themes” the evidence for the change in media is in the very way that this has been presented to us now. The essentials of the practice of teaching media has stayed the same, however the content and delivery of said teachings has changed; e.g. me sitting at home with my laptop quietly studying, both reading online and watching videos, opposed to being in the classroom and typical learning environment of yesteryear.