Analysis Phase
Evaluation

In the evaluation stage, students are stimulated to use their critical thinking skills, so that they can evaluate or ‘judge’ the media message within the context.

Several strategies and activities were used to judge the representation of ethnic minorities and immigrants in the news, and to decide which clips were the most interesting for the Media Forum.

• Oral class discussion after workshop
• Written class discussion in an on-line Forum
• Individual reports about the workshop
• Reports for the presentation at the Media Forum

 

The main questions that ran through the evaluation phase were:

• Why is this or that social group depicted this way?
• What is behind it?
• Does this kind of representation contribute to the general idea the audience has about this group? How?
• What is the context of the emitted item: when was it emitted, what channel emitted it, who owns the channel, and therefore, what could be the reason behind this particular representation?
• Would you do it differently? What would you change?

All these activities took place before the Media Forum and were carried out at each university (local groups of students).

 

 

Eclipse Project - racism, xenophobia and cultural prejudices in the media  |  LMI-2005

Universitat of Barcelona  |  Universtität zu Köln
Universiteit Gent  |  Universitetet i Stavanger

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