Remember that values questions have a “you” in them. The goal is to involve people in relating what they see on the screen to their own lives, not to analyze the filmmaker’s technique or to engage in intellectual criticism. Allow the conversation to flow along a values and feelings track.
Bio/Short Description
Gary Gumpert is Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts and Sciences at Queens College, City University of New York, and also Vice President of the U.S. chapter of the International Institute of Communication. His work over the past thirty years has addressed the many nuances in our growing dependency upon mediated communication. Formerly a radio and television producer/director, Gary is widely published in a variety of journals and books which examine the intricate interconnection of social interaction, urbanization and media technology. His current research focuses on the relationship of new communication technologies and the use of public spaces. With his colleague Robert Cathcart, Gumpert published "Media Grammars, Generations, and Media Gaps" in 1985, an essay that argued that “generations” could be replaced by the concept of human groups based on media relationships. By noticing how people are connected (or separated) by media experience, they made the case that each form of media develop their own grammars. This affects how individuals acquire media literacy competencies and relate to the world and each other. By claiming that people develop different states of media consciousness based on the media grammars they master, they inspired media literacy educators to consider strategies to address the gaps and disconnections between people and their media experiences.
HOW THEY INFLUENCED YOU?
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Renee Hobbs
When Gary Gumpert published "Mediated Interpersonal Communication" in 1983, it rocked my world. Finally, someone was acknowledging that media texts and contexts are deeply woven into our social relationships. Today, of course, social media has made the link explicit. But Gumpert's framing of it in the early 1980s was an exemplary example of what we media literacy educators were craving: a way to connect the dots between the cultural, the political and the personal.