History of Media Literacy, Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2

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  • In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward through the printing press, newspapers, and Yellow Journalism.
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  • @shannonnonnon
    @shannonnonnon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    The first two minutes of this video is a shockingly good summary of what I learned one quarter at college

  • @ebreilly
    @ebreilly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    Amazing! As Board President of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, we want to thank you for making this media literacy series happen. We're excited to follow and share it with our communities. Please let us know if we can help.

  • @daltongrowley5280
    @daltongrowley5280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "it was a strange time" it still is Jay, it still is

  • @hvbris_
    @hvbris_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Play Dough, the Greek Philosopher

  • @francoislacombe9071
    @francoislacombe9071 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Click bait before there were clicks.

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Francois Lacombe penny bait

  • @hallfiry
    @hallfiry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Finally someone mentioning Luther's dark side. Here in Germany it's totally ignored by politics and the church and last year was even officially celebrated as the "Luther Year", including an additional holiday and all.

  • @ryanliberty
    @ryanliberty 6 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    That's it! No more writing anything down! 🤔

    • @PurpleLemurs
      @PurpleLemurs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ryan Liberty / Mental Health woah dude I watch your videos

    • @ryanliberty
      @ryanliberty 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sweet! 👋

    • @forrestl5597
      @forrestl5597 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      my teachers will love this excuse

    • @victorcates9330
      @victorcates9330 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In terms of anxiety on writing things down, an earlier media fear might be criticising graven images as facilitating idolatry. So an illustrated book comes with the threat of ruining your memory and turning you into a pagan.

  • @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758
    @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Just listen to that smooth voice, can you please get a podcast?

    • @mustardsfire22
      @mustardsfire22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He's on the radio, at least.

    • @XiaosChannel
      @XiaosChannel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i think he mentioned his other show in the last episode? or the teaser trailer or something

    • @denaerangel
      @denaerangel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really hate making up names for this kind of stuff agreed

    • @darinsingleton3553
      @darinsingleton3553 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I used to watch him all the time on his TH-cam channel. I believe he is on other platforms as well.

  • @bookwormwen
    @bookwormwen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Another great episode, particularly talking about truth vs. sensationalism. Those early newspaper headlines are reminiscent of the tabloids at grocery checkouts.

  • @dynasty2617
    @dynasty2617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Good content. I major in Media Studies at UC Berkeley and this is concurrent with everything i am learning in a Media History class and is really helpful. thank you

  • @INDEED9104
    @INDEED9104 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Listen I got on my laptop to post this comment, because Microsoft is too shortsighted to provide TH-cam comment services on the Xbox one app.
    This new guy is awesome. He delivers the content cleanly with some slightly funny moments. Highly recommend keeping him around!

  • @8cspohn
    @8cspohn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    this one gets a solid 100%, you did a good job on this.

  • @anyabelle
    @anyabelle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, thanks for this! Blown away (oops) by the Pulitzer part. He apparently was no saint when it comes to the world of journalism, and yet here we are, awarding journalists under his name.

  • @ErickOberholtzer
    @ErickOberholtzer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Did the host change his name to “Jay Smooth”? It’s too fitting. He’s so smooooooooth

  • @Creepzza
    @Creepzza 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This series is so good, thanks for this.

  • @marietanksley2546
    @marietanksley2546 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you so much for inpirsing me to apply for a film minor. It might not go with my science degree but I'm super happy

  • @syeina
    @syeina 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    It is really fascinating to compare what the host is saying about yellow journalism to today with the how nuts the internet has gotten with its own issues with misinformation.

    • @Chamelionroses
      @Chamelionroses 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      syeina mass media to tin foil hats making up conspiracy without evidence. Though people ear it up and they make money.

    • @thischannelisforcommenting5680
      @thischannelisforcommenting5680 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Joshua Nunn More like Breitbart.

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      syeina we use to have subscriptions

  • @samad.chouihat4222
    @samad.chouihat4222 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i liked this series and i am planning to watch it till the end !

  • @janicej4322
    @janicej4322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As someone who is studying communication and media in college, this video gives me a lot of new stuff that I didn't get in class. I hope more people watch this series!

  • @lunachow9787
    @lunachow9787 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This series is great!

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is already so good!

  • @jaygee514
    @jaygee514 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A great Discworld book related to this topic is "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett. It takes place in a fictional world where magic exists, but there are many parallels with our Roundworld :)

  • @patriciafolasa197
    @patriciafolasa197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love your history of media awesome I’m writing an essay about media great info

  • @ethanrepublic
    @ethanrepublic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Blame the main on spain

    • @leonietrzeba6778
      @leonietrzeba6778 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ethan Republic THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER

    • @ethanrepublic
      @ethanrepublic 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Leo Zebra didn't think anyone would notice

    • @justinstrong9595
      @justinstrong9595 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maine*

    • @lincolnpepper816
      @lincolnpepper816 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BuildinWings we could make a religion out of this*

  • @connorshadle3590
    @connorshadle3590 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is fantastic!

  • @aL3891_
    @aL3891_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great series!

  • @Love1nOther
    @Love1nOther 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jay!!!!!!!! I missed you on TH-cam! Good to see you again

  • @michaelfloden3488
    @michaelfloden3488 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love this series

  • @user-ey2wd7vq3z
    @user-ey2wd7vq3z 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great series

  • @KingsleyIII
    @KingsleyIII 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This host is a very Smooth dude.

  • @Frownlandia
    @Frownlandia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Like I've always said-the flaming Maine was plainly blamed on Spain.

  • @christiansinamano4827
    @christiansinamano4827 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jay: Socrates's biggest problem with people was writing.
    Also Jay: Socrate writes

  • @pan_bacchanal
    @pan_bacchanal 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutly adore it

  • @troymsmith35
    @troymsmith35 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job!

  • @sapturnus
    @sapturnus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I think I'll change my name to Al Smooth

  • @habiburrahmanpial5645
    @habiburrahmanpial5645 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great sir! Love form🇧🇩

  • @dominic9983
    @dominic9983 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    That strict periodisation where Gutenberg’s press was the exact moment when literacy spread to people of all classes is some pretty old thinking, Eisenstein with the whole “print culture” meme if I’m not mistaken. A really good book about how misleading this can be is The Nature of the Book by Adrian Johns, I understand you’re constrained by time and audience but this is a fairly nuanced point which I hope you’ll address in more detail.

  • @IzaakCha7
    @IzaakCha7 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was a great video 🐢

  • @bl00dhoney
    @bl00dhoney 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jay Smooth!!!

  • @opheliawhite9740
    @opheliawhite9740 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guys im a emerging media and communications major. This is golden.

  • @iphigeniaaz
    @iphigeniaaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Good thing we don’t have to worry about that today.” LOL

  • @geoffreywinn4031
    @geoffreywinn4031 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Educational!

  • @arbaaz9992
    @arbaaz9992 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Judas priest's album in the back has me more excited! Not because i am bored, more so because there's nothing more exciting than metal.

  • @brocksprogramming
    @brocksprogramming 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Way to go J smooth!

  • @NoMereRanger73
    @NoMereRanger73 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Pulitzer and Hearst, they think they got us?”
    Do they got us?”
    “No!”

  • @rhythmdroid
    @rhythmdroid ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent condensation and causal analysis. That little “oh but you also need to know that this Catholic person from 500 years ago hated Jews” yeah, like DUH. That sticks out like a sore thumb.

  • @aishanabila7530
    @aishanabila7530 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yellow Journalism = The Daily Mail today. LOL

  • @akshaydevkarama3277
    @akshaydevkarama3277 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    yay,nicole's voice at the end!

  • @kirashiffer1508
    @kirashiffer1508 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Newsies reference!!!

  • @sannydanchez10
    @sannydanchez10 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are the figures in such dramatic colors? Also, I see you have some books on the desk there. Should I be giving them a look? Would love to some book recommendations.

  • @ductuslupus87
    @ductuslupus87 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It would appear that "yellow Journalism" has now become journalism.

    • @WhompingWalrus
      @WhompingWalrus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      On a lot of the internet, yes, but there are still reliable sources out there. They just aren't the ones chasing the most sensationalized stories, so they're the ones we have to seek out. The ones that find us aren't the most reputable.

  • @SunriseFireberry
    @SunriseFireberry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Didn't the Chinese have printing before Gutenberg?

    • @Pfhorrest
      @Pfhorrest 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Fun fact: The Mongols (always the exception!) brought printing presses in their early expeditions to the west, and reprinted Bibles for the Christian westerners as one of the services they traded there. That pissed off the churches, who controlled the states, who attacked the Mongol explorers/traders, who returned to the east and reported that the peoples of the west were violent barbaric hordes in need of conquering for the sake of their own civilization.

    • @iluvearth99
      @iluvearth99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Pfhorrest sounds interesting! Do you have a source so I can learn more about it?

    • @Ngamotu83
      @Ngamotu83 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      The Chinese did invent printing, but it was Gutenberg who invented the printing press.

    • @XiaosChannel
      @XiaosChannel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Michael Gibb define "printing press"

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The difference between printing and a printing press is important. Even Europe had printing before Gutenberg; the problem was that you needed to carve a whole stamp for each page you tried to print, so it was very rarely useful.
      Gutenberg's printing press and its moveable type meant you only needed a few dozen stamps to print anything you wanted (though in practice you'd want a couple hundred, so you could print an entire page at once). _This_ is what made Gutenberg's printing press into a force that changed the world. With about as much equipment as it would take to make just a few whole-page printing stamps, you could theoretically print _anything._ Translations of the Bible, rival translations of the Bible, arguments over interpreting the Bible...some people even used it for non-religious stuff!
      (And for anyone wondering why the Chinese didn't do this: Their written language was designed to be a _lingua franca_ between dozens of mutually unintelligible dialects/languages, and hence has thousands of unique characters. Even if someone worked out the technology required for doing that, it would have been hellishly expensive to actually make or use.)

  • @Chamelionroses
    @Chamelionroses 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Languages are ever evolving so it is a challenge to keep up with literacy also.

  • @awsmguy175
    @awsmguy175 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jay: *say the phrase*journalistic ethics"*
    Me: *violent flashbacks*

  • @Julika7
    @Julika7 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about the letter press before Gutenberg, I think in China? Will it be in part 2?

  • @josephyml
    @josephyml 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    my boy luther!!

  • @theguitarway12
    @theguitarway12 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This series has come at a perfect time considering the worlds current political climate. I don't know why but I have a feeling of a potential red pill... anyone else?

  • @jjc5475
    @jjc5475 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that guy sounds so american.
    i love it.

  • @satellite964
    @satellite964 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Buzzfeed Yellow now sounds strangely appropriate

  • @EvenMoreFreedom
    @EvenMoreFreedom 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love those eyebrows on Martin Luther...

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "...they called it 'yellow journalism' because Pulitzer and Hearst's papers fought over which one would print a popular comic called The Yellow Kid."
    Wait...something called "The _Yellow_ Kid" made in the late 19th century? It wasn't the kind of comic that would see publication today, was it?

    • @edfagan4251
      @edfagan4251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Actually, he wasn't asian...no one would read a comic about an asian kid in the US back then.

    • @Atypical-Abbie
      @Atypical-Abbie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Timothy McLean Actually it's The Simpdons of the 19th century.

    • @Tfin
      @Tfin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If anything, he was Irish. The Irish weren't any more popular than the Chinese, except among themselves.

    • @rparl
      @rparl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Timothy McLean No, it was actually printed on yellow paper, to stand out in the news stand.

    • @ThatSanddog
      @ThatSanddog 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @R3Testa His name was Mickey Dugan, so I think you got it right.

  • @PeihuiBrandonYeo
    @PeihuiBrandonYeo 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    damn this guy is smooth

  • @chiko9180
    @chiko9180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If Pulitzer was selling yellow journalism, why today we have a journalism prize name from him?

  • @dearone1
    @dearone1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    PlayDoh is my favourite philosopher
    😉

  • @alexphillips496
    @alexphillips496 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:47 what does yellow snow taste like

  • @katherinealbee7501
    @katherinealbee7501 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dang, I had no idea clickbait was that old!

  • @syafiarizkyhanifah4478
    @syafiarizkyhanifah4478 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that Nicole’s voice in the end?

  • @ArchOfWinter
    @ArchOfWinter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Movable type was invented in 1040 AD in China. The types were made of clay but was replaced by metallic types in the 12th century. Literacy can be a threat to the ruling power, but when your empire was as powerful as China was at the time, mass literacy was necessary for maintaining the massive bureaucracy and economy that covers land area as large as, if not larger, than the Roman Empire. Movable type enables a reliable way to mass produce paper money. Higher literacy mean more people can read and follow laws and pay taxes. While literacy remained low for most of China, there were enough middle-class in urban and some in rural area to keep the government, economy, and society as a whole from collapsing.

  • @Chamelionroses
    @Chamelionroses 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    People still often rely on clergy to interpret. I suggest evidence of various ideas of interpretation, but looking at cults being gate keepers of information and how. Some political cults are forcing indoctrination on kids besides religious cults. Though that is a whole other thing. I digress.
    Censorship happens but self censorship happens as well. That ignorance and willing ignorance besides stereotype, misinformation, and such. Most don't look at things skeptically and with critical thinking it seems, or cherry picking is done. Though I can see why it is not easy to be literate with how the human brain functions with such behaviors in general.
    Thanks for this.

  • @maxwipson147
    @maxwipson147 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And now I want to watch Newsies

  • @qazhr
    @qazhr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you please explain to me why you wont fix both crash course theater playlist and the crash course mythology?

    • @Chamelionroses
      @Chamelionroses 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Willie Preisig what do they need to fix?

    • @qazhr
      @qazhr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jennifer Isaacs need to post the episode in crash course theater and need to add 36 37 40 and 41 of in crash course mythology

  • @spilkafurtseva1918
    @spilkafurtseva1918 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    sorry to be /that guy/ but Luther translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew* to German (not from Latin). But there was a previous translation actually made for the Catholic church named the "Vulgate" translation and that's a whole other story! Great video as always though!

  • @thatblackgeek
    @thatblackgeek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Good thing we don't have to worry about today..."
    *Was this dude actually serious?"

  • @johngilmour8945
    @johngilmour8945 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Media, has Begun to Re-write History!

  • @blakeoutlaw1735
    @blakeoutlaw1735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You're a rather "persuasive" man yourself, Mr. Smooth. Just kidding, sort of. I

  • @niaschim
    @niaschim 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:13

  • @92AlexanderS
    @92AlexanderS 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I miss the summary at the end, so it's more difficult to find a structure in what you say.

  • @jakobjess8995
    @jakobjess8995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3rd

    • @Chamelionroses
      @Chamelionroses 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      That Targaryen infinity and beyond 108.

  • @lstein8670
    @lstein8670 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When is cash course math coming out

  • @billytrespassers3123
    @billytrespassers3123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice Judas Priest LP 🤘🏻

  • @LuisSierra42
    @LuisSierra42 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    "22 Things You're Doing Wrong Without Realizing It" - BuzzFeed

  • @randomassassin3023
    @randomassassin3023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My space Tom

  • @tobiaswedin
    @tobiaswedin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should have pointed out that Randolph Hearst probably was the actual devil.

  • @SvintMvrcus
    @SvintMvrcus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:59 😂😂😂

  • @despaahana
    @despaahana 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    All media today is yellow as well. Only the degree of yellow is different.

  • @lyzardthebard
    @lyzardthebard 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pulitzer and Heartz? They think we're nuthin' are we nuthin'? NO!

  • @kanehodder3459
    @kanehodder3459 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    So in summation: all the issues you see with press right now have happened before...

  • @owbu
    @owbu 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    That Plato quote is about how "them young people" ruin the good old oral tradition by writing poems into books and how that ruins the young peoples ability to memorize something. It's your mum yelling "go read a book! The TV is ruining your eyes!".
    I dont think you can intereprete that as being worried about how people could misintereprete your intention when you write things down. ... I think there is some irony here somewhere...

  • @kalai_doscope
    @kalai_doscope 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plato was dark!

  • @NoahOfTheArc
    @NoahOfTheArc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sensational news headlines to attract attention and make money from advertisers . . . Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • @samuelpaulini
    @samuelpaulini 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    eurocentric

  • @Norimarisu
    @Norimarisu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The origins of click bait

  • @cherrykamino
    @cherrykamino 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    "publishers choosing profit over truth"
    damn

  • @Mattteus
    @Mattteus 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is he from Chicago?

  • @Rudraksho
    @Rudraksho 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he said 1452 but then said his was the 15th century....

  • @TheAgamidaex
    @TheAgamidaex 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you please add a little pause before the outro? I need like a second for the information to settle.

  • @minhazabedin8327
    @minhazabedin8327 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    !!!

  • @zman8164
    @zman8164 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hoi

  • @lorebalder
    @lorebalder 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is he talking like Christopher Walker?? 😱

  • @Fiascofan96
    @Fiascofan96 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy lightweight sounds like Obama at times 😂