"What, me worry?" Teaching media literacy through satire and Mad magazine.

Teaching media, like teaching anything else can lead to some very difficult discussions. It s always possible for students to get bogged down or confused by new material, but when approaching media literacy specifically, students can become especially fatigued. Not only are there literally countless media texts and volumes of relevant criticism for student consumption, but much of that criticism damns students' everyday, and pleasurable, experiences with media like television, film, and radio. Therefore, discussions of media literacy often feel to students like personal attacks ra