Polarisation

This rather simplistic table comes as a result of reading Crawford and Sennett and my own socio-cultural observations regarding media production in schools. I think laying out these polarities is helping to shape my thinking and to locate where my interests lie in terms of fields and discourses. I thought of making a middle column to see if this space could be conceptualised in some way. eg. The Pragmatist could sit between the The Realist and The Idealist and The Facilitator could sit between The Teacher and The Pupil, for instance. But then it occurred to me that the terms Media Maker/Making, Media Text could comfortably sit in that middle column right down to the bottom as an important mediating tool to understand how social discourse moves from left to right; hence how important it is for young people to know how to manipulate media, negotiate these tensions and see how the world works.