Monday, February 20, 2017

Critical Literacy

The Four Dimensions of Critical Literacy

  •  Disrupting a common situation or understanding (seeking to understand the text or situation in more or less detail to gain perspective)
·         Interrogating multiple viewpoints (standing in the shoes of others or thinking about texts from perspectives of different characters or from perspectives not represented in the texts)

·         Focusing on sociopolitical issues (thinking about power in relationships between and among people and exploring how power relationships shape perceptions, responses, and actions)

·         Taking action and promoting social justice (reflecting and acting to change an inappropriate, unequal power relationship between people)
       Identified by Lewison, Flint and Sluys (2002)

   



Rhetorical Analysis of Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial - 2015



* How do you know what is being advertised?
* How do you know whom the products are for?
* What do the advertisers want you to think about the products?
* Which words and pictures tell you that? How?
* Who produces these advertisements?