Personal Bias & Media Literacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5axQ_yy3MA

a list of all the questions mentioned:

- what is the author trying to say?

- what is the main message and theme?

- what ideology or worldview is coming through from the author? do you agree with it?

- does what happens in the book fit the message?

- how does the book fit into the literary period?

- how does the book fit into greater literary patterns?

- does the book defy the genre in some way?

- if it is recommended on tiktok a lot: why is this book all over tiktok? (does it fit a tiktok-trend? is it algorithm-friendly?…)

- what is the goal of the book?

- why do i like/dislike that character?

- are the plot twists plausible?

- what makes me want to keep reading this book?

- what is keeping me from giving this book five/one star/s?

- what style of writing is this? how does it fit the book?

Also, someone posted:

"The problem with this list is that it's very skewed towards the work within its context (historicism) rather than the work in itself (structuralism). There's nothing inherently wrong with this, but if you're not careful it can lead to a very superficial analysis of the work that just looks at themes and messages without looking at how they're conveyed."

It's still a very good list. However, the problem is that some people don't want to think. They want to turn their brain off. Also, the issues I have with some people is that they add problems into fiction such as "He says her hair is like crystals... He's objectifying her."

Like they inject political bias into work, and assume the writer is a bad person for trying to explain what her hair looks That's personal bias. The writer could full well be a black female writing "Her skin is like chocolate, her hair is like caramel..." Not a white male racist writer.

Here's another video on media literacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aOwO7_TYU