Medialit Funnies

I know, I know. I haven’t blogged for a goodish while. I do apologise. It’s a long story.

If you haven’t guessed by now, I have a serious passion for media literacy, with deconstructing ads my activity of choice. This means I can spend unreasonable amounts of time frowning and looking very seriously at the screen – much like I am in my profile pic.

Therefore, I’m thrilled to share with y’all the fabulous and hilarious work of Sarah Haskins on infoMania at Current.com. Haskins’ ‘Target Women’ series is a fantastic critique of the seemingly endless ways the ad industry targets women’s self-esteem in order to solve problems we never even knew we had. 

So if you’re ever tempted to yell at your TV the next time an ad suggests your life would be better if only you were hot enough, thin enough, pretty enough (or had Hydralicious hair!), I highly recommend checking out all Sarah’s videos, and following her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Sarah_Haskins.

And next time it’s been too long between posts over here, come and join the #medialiteracy conversation over at http://twitter.com/tandrusiak. In the meantime, enjoy!

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