Episode 4 companion · Season one
Are their lives real?
The issue is not a beautiful image; it is forgetting that an excerpt is not a whole life.
TAS · Tareq Abushawish · Version 1.0 · Reviewed
Core idea
Do not compare your whole day with someone else’s selected moment.
External references selected by TAS to explore tool and episode themes. Listing them does not identify them as the scripts’ original sources or imply publisher endorsement. Suggested exercises are prepared by TAS; each publisher determines its reference’s reuse terms.
- Media and Information Literacy Curriculum: Think Critically, Click Wisely ↗UNESCO · 2021
Use the module index to scope a workshop, then select an audience-appropriate activity and check the original publication’s reuse terms.
- Module 6: Representation in Media and Information ↗UNESCO · 2021
Start with representation and the power of images, then analyse a professional or social post without assuming knowledge of its author’s life beyond the post.
Try this after the episode
Choose a public post and list three things it shows and three things it cannot tell you. Rephrase your impression starting with ‘This post shows…’ instead of making a broad judgment about its author’s life.
Open the practical tool