#media consumption

[themysteryofthepurplepool]

I don't want to hear the phrase "media consumption" ever again unless you mean this

#wizard #gargoyles #media consumption #wizardposting

[thebookewyrme]

Ok academic tumblr, I need some good reading materials on why “thought crime” isn’t real and why consuming problematic media does not make you a bad person, preferably suitable for someone with religious trauma. I’ve done a little digging and not yet encountered anything that really fits what I’m looking for (aside from predictably, tumblr posts because we have this discussion so often in the fandom sides of tumblr). Preferably without paywalls please, neither I nor my friend can afford them.

Help me Obi Wan Ketumblr!

#academia #academic writing #media consumption #media analysis #morality and media #library #librarians

[fantastic-nonsense]

"sex scenes can enhance the story being told and are occasionally fun to insert for no real reason" and "modern media has a lot of unnecessary sex scenes that often feel at least vaguely exploitive and do absolutely nothing except awkwardly take consumers out of the moment" are two thoughts that can and should co-exist

#media #media consumption #this is especially true of television #and ESPECIALLY television ostensibly starring teenagers

[animentality]

#twitter #anti #proship #writing #writers on tumblr #media consumption #media literacy

[whereserpentswalk]

Making money off art does not make it impure. Something being produced under capitalism does not make it less valuable as art. Your art isn't devalued by you selling it. A book/movie/play/show isn't less artistically valuable because it was distributed (I am deliberately not using the word "made") by a company.

The idea that monetization is antithetical to art is not a leftist idea. It is a deeply reactionary idea, that finds the idea of artists also being workers are scary.

If you view art that people make money off of as invalid. Then you inherently only view art made by people with the privilege it takes to have time and resources to make art without having to sell it as valuable.

"This isn't real art, it's just a product" might look like hatred of capitalism, but in practice it is hatred of workers.

#leftism #leftist #art #media criticism #media consumption #media literacy #libertarian socialism #socalism #socialism #marxism #communist #anticapitalist #anticapitalism #anti capitalism #anti capitalist

[exquisite-peculiarity]

#autistic #autism #media consumption #media #movies #books #tv #polls #poll

[vivika-ka]

I’m screeching into the abyss because of how anxious I am, but uh...I made a video about how different fandom and shipping are now compared to 10 years ago. It covers many points we see here on Tumblr.

And if you love One Piece, I use multiple One Piece ships for examples. There’s even a tiny Luffy and Lawlu analysis in there XD

Please check it out! <3

#youtube #lawlu #fandom #fandom culture #fandom discourse #fandom discussion #one piece #commentary #luffy #zoro #sanji #zosan #nami #vivi #namivivi #shipping #ship #moral purity #media consumption #media commentary #video #video essay #essay #fandom essay #fandom etiquette

[livelaughliushen]

Quick PSA:

Do not undermine the potential content warnings of a book to make the book more palatable.

This is, again, specifically for my fellow SVSSS fans. I see a lot of y’all out here posting that people are exaggerating the levels of fucked up Scum Villain is.

Hate to brake it to you but SVSSS hits most of AO3s major content warnings and, quite frankly, some people don’t wanna read that. And that’s ok.

You don’t have to justify what you read or what you enjoy, and other people don’t have to justify not reading or enjoying it. But don’t mislead people for what they’re getting themselves into.

#svsss #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #mxtx #housekeeping #media consumption #danmei #all of this is also aplicable to 2ha #honestly it’s aplicable to a lot of things

[denkies]

Some of yall do not know the difference between "media that glorifies Bad Thing" and "media that portrays Bad Thing and the audience has to use critical thinking skills" and its actually concerning

#for a bunch of ''burnt out gifted kids 🥺'' yall don't use those gifts of critical thinking much huh #media that contains uncomfortable topics (especially horror) is not glorifying said topic by default #killing stalking is the first example that comes to my head. it was just a horror series that had gay people. #wasnt glorifying the horrors at all. in fact it actually portrays the horrors as Bad and Not Okay At All #seeing our mc rationalizing the behaviours of his abuser due to stockholm syndrome is upsetting to us as the audience. #and yall were like ''it glorifies abuse and murder 🥺🥺🥺'' no babygirl. it contains abuse and murder as a subject. #you are just incapable of critical thought and you assume the portrayal of any subject is glorification. touch grass. #thats like watching hannibal and being like ''this show glorifies cannibalism 🥺'' it very much is not. #there was also the manga Star Lover that y'all were canceling for ''glorifying pedophilia'' and when you read it it's about A VICTIM OF CSA #like its literally about a character who is sexually abused by her uncle and this is an integral part to the story. its not fanservice. #sometimes media is created with the belief that the audience has the ability to think for themselves #and therefore should not have to a Explicitly State "hey this morally bankrupt concept is bad!'' #because you should be able to come to that conclusion on your own <3 #media consumption #a.txt #media and information literacy #media analysis

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose]

The influence of Twitter on online culture made me angry, the influence of TikTok on online culture kinda scares me. The amount of misinformation, censorship, media illiteracy, secular puritanism, revisionism, moral dogmatism… it just horrifies me.

Twitter made online culture into a sphere of perpetually pointless discourse, filled to the brim with pedantry, cynicism, performative outrage, gleeful abuse, bad faith arguments etc. It’s a world where everyone is an intellectual, an activist and a critic, no matter how incurious, inaccurate and demonstrably absurd their arguments.

TikTok is creating a world where everyone feels themselves to be historians, educators, politicians, community leaders, moral guides, experts etc. Like that woman who says the Roman Empire didn’t exist said: “some people just know more than you.” (Or something similar)

‘Just know’ is critical here: lots of TikTok influencers just confidently presume to know things without doing any real research, fact-checking and due diligence. They just act as if they are experts and will say whatever without citing anything. More than anything, they act as if their words and intuitions hold universal moral weight.

This is inevitably leading us to a path where the worst impulses of people who love attention and love to feel right no matter the cost are steering discourse standards for young people.

The result is this kind of secular dogmatism, puritanism and moral absolutism. What is problematic is immoral, what is uncomfortable is abusive, all authoritative information is untrue… People propagating all kinds of misinformation and historical revisionism, people spreading the attitude that all “problematic” media should be wiped from existence, that any expression that doesn’t meet their criteria doesn’t have a right to exist publicly, that morality is not concerned with actual interpersonal behaviour but with personal taste, preference and media consumption instead… At the centre of it is the bane of much online media “analysis”, the attitude that ‘I am the universal I. My taste corresponds with the bounds of what should exist and what shouldn’t. If I can’t relate to it, it’s irrelevant, if I dislike it, it must be morally reprehensible and should be erased.’

This will lead to more alienation, fragmentation and polarisation, but that’s not all. A lot of these misguided attitudes come clad in the language of progressive values and radical politics, but deliberately or not, they are smoothing the path for reactionary gain. People forget that reactionary ideas and attitudes don’t always have to come with explicitly right-wing conservative, neoliberal signifiers, they can just as easily be clad in the language of socialism or revolutionary values as well (just look at the Sovjet-Union or modern day China).

I do sincerely hope that the online left does something to counter this because this trend will make it incredibly easy for the right-wing to enflame the culture war and turn offline people against social progressivism and/or for red-brown goons and reactionary “socialists” to infiltrate the online left and increasingly make it more conservative and more culturally restrictive.

This finger-wagging, prudish and proudly ignorant version of progressivism will not protect anyone from anything. It will just open up online communities to more harassment, thought-policing, gatekeeping, public shaming and open the door for many cynical and unscrupulous people to gain prominence and violently enforce cultural conformity.

#Twitter #TikTok #social media #media literacy #misinformation #online #online culture #conservative #socialist #radical #reactionary #social media culture #media consumption

[defectivegembrain]

*pretentious ass voice* no but you see, you are only Consuming Media when it's the Wrong kind of media or you do it the Wrong way or for the Wrong reasons, as opposed to my perfect soul-cleansing mind-enriching Art

#media consumption #discourse

[future-exmrs-malcolm]

This is just something I'm curious about after discussing with a group of friends

#sexuality #gender #queer community #gender dysphoria #media consumption #i swear this isnt bisexual erasure #im bi and i genuinely just forgot i exist

[a-fragile-little-teacup]

Sexuality, Consumption of Media, and a Small Comment on Parasocial Relationships.

Hi.

Let's talk about sexuality and how we consume media has led to unhealthy and inappropriate patterns of behavior.

I am going to make this as short and sweet as I can so that my point gets across without giving anyone fatigue from reading.

Throughout the years, we have watched on media consumption has mixed with the online world to create something of a little bubble for each thing. Fandoms form from these little bubbles. This fandom can lead to creative works of art, interesting discussions, and shipping of different people. This is typically around a show, movie, or other fictional work with fictional characters. It has created a sense of community for many people and to blindly claim that it has done no good would be disingenuous.

However, with the rise of this behavior- especially shipping- there has been an increase in assuming the sexuality of many characters. This has since begun to expand into the way real people (singers, actors, content creators, etc.) are treated.

I would like to propose that we have stopped seeing these celebrities as anything more than fictional characters for us to morph and shape into whatever we want them to be. Social media is television show and we are creating the story by using these celebrities. This has caused the line between what is okay and what is not okay to become somewhat blurred.

This has led to an alarming pattern of using "evidence" to assume the sexuality of an individual. This evidence can be the use of vague answers in interviews, claims of personal interpretations as the intentions of the artists, and the use of stereotypes that are commonly harmful to the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.

These celebrities are human beings with lives outside of our view. We cannot play pretend with them like we can with fictional characters. I would advise all of us to hold off on the assumption of someone's sexuality until they make a clear, public statement, if they ever decide to do so. We should not be reading into small jokes, song lyrics, clothes, or stereotypes to find the conclusions that we find to be the most satisfying to us. We should also never be harassing those individuals to make statements that would verify those conclusions.

Believe me, I understand the desire to see ourselves in the people we admire, but it is not those individuals' job to reflect to us a successful image of ourselves. These are people with personal insecurities, valid fears, and a need for privacy.

It is a time for respect. A time to reverse this behavior before it gets further out of hand than it already is. I have seen the victims of this pattern getting younger and younger and I am scared for them. Please, let them decide what is true and right for them. You will never know them in the same way that they know themselves. I promise you that.

Thank you for reading all of this. Even if it seems horrendously obvious to you, please keep it in mind while participating in any online discourse.

Have a great day.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #bi #bisexual #bisexuality #gay #lesbianism #sapphic #wlw #lesbian #fandom culture #parasocial relationships #media consumption

[uovoc]

2022 Media consumption: strategizing

Last year, my strategy for finding more god-tier media was to read more books by authors I already liked. Was it effective?

About the same percentage of god tier media this year as in 2021 (~10%). That's pretty low. My goal is to increase the percentage of god-tier media. Where did I get my media recs?

Where did I get my god-tier media recs?

Most god tier media came from Tumblr mutuals. However, this is a pretty small sample size. Do Tumblr mutuals actually have a better track record than other media recommendation sources?

Tumblr mutuals had a much higher percentage of god-tier media recs (a whopping 57%) than the next-highest source of god-tier media (childhood media, at only 8%). Yes, it appears that tumblr mutuals are in fact the most reliable source of good media.

The strategy for 2023 will be to consume more media that is recommended by Tumblr mutuals.

#Media consumption #patter

[lurkingshan]

How many non-BLs do you watch in general, and why is it good to mix up your media intake?

Look at you forcing me to admit I watch more than you on main. As you know, the answer is: a lot. You don’t become a drama scholar by slacking!

My MDL right now says I’ve completed about 350 dramas, and that’s across a wide variety of Asian media. I watch stuff from Korea, Japan, Thailand, and China very regularly, as well as whatever I can find from Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam (some of this isn’t even tracked on MDL so my total watch number is always higher than whatever it says). I also watch Western media but not nearly as much. By my count I’ve watched about 85 dramas this year, and the bl to not-bl split is about 50/50.

I try to watch at least a few bls live week to week at any given time for fandom participation reasons, because it’s fun to take part in the discourse. And I’m always also working through a long backlog of non-bl dramas, which I binge one at a time (unlike some people who try to simultaneously watch 20 things one episode at a time, ahem). And I do think the variety is important for a number of reasons.

I am truly a lover of stories, and I always want another one. I usually also have a book going on top of my drama viewing.

I’m analytical by nature and very interested in narrative structure, characterization, plotting and pacing, and all the other components of good storytelling. You learn these things best by studying and observing what works and what doesn’t in the media you consume.

Watching dramas from different countries gives you the chance to learn about a variety of cultures and draw connections between cultural norms and values, how stories get told, and how each industry interacts with audiences both domestic and international.

Having a well-balanced media diet also affords you the opportunity to learn about differences between cultures and how these countries’ media speaks to and influences each other.

Fiction is a great way to process your emotions and get to know yourself. Varying the genre, style, and tone on your watch list opens your mind to so much creativity and allows you to find affinity and connection with things you didn’t even know you liked. If you’re not willing to venture out of your usual patterns and safe zones, you may never know yourself entirely.

Consuming too much of any one thing is bad for your brain. If you only watch one kind of story over and over again, you will lack perspective and capacity for critical analysis, because you lose touch with the wider context of the media landscape. Comparative analysis keeps you sharp and helps you learn.

To put it simply: There’s a great wide world of stories out there, and I want to see and learn from them all.

#media consumption #asian drama #shan answers

[whereserpentswalk]

Someday there's going to be a human in the far future whose hyperfixation is the early 21st century. And they're going to read our books, and watch our movies and shows, the ones that survived, probably the good ones that people kept preserving. And they'll think about them, and talk about them with likeminded people, and enjoy the same parts we did, and have the same favorite character that you might have. And I think that's cool.

#196 #my thougts #worldbuilding #writing #my writing #my worldbuilding #media consumption #media analysis #futurism #far future #scifi #science fiction #sci fi