Hi I'm Nix, welcome to my blog! I will be posting art and things I care about on this blog. Please do not mention to anyone if you recognize me, either from in real life or online, if you know me or if you think I seem familiar. I am attempting to evade the notice of my abusers.
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Every time I see that post about fictional characters being objects it gives me a small pause so, here is my take on it.
Fictional characters are indeed objects. They are not actual people that have rights that must be respected. Fictional characters are a vehicle through which a person can tell a story or convey a message. Not every story told is going to be some sort of sanitized happy-go-lucky story that respects every moral rule that one must respect. What a person makes a fictional character go through is not an endorsement of the person's own personal beliefs or a moral statement on the person's character. If we had to tell stories which respects every single moral boundary we would not have many interesting and thought-provoking stories. For example murder is morally wrong but no one really bats an eye about a story that contains copious amounts of murder nor do people assume the author to be a serial killer of some sort.
That being said, it is also important to note that fictional stories are also used to convey a message. It can reinforce certain stereotypes about groups of people. It can and has been used as a vehicle for propaganda. So, I think it is important to be able to distinguish between "a story and its fictional premise are not a reflection of the person writing this and their beliefs" and "there are stories that are, intentionally or unintentionally, promoting and reinforcing ideas that are harming real people." It's a fine line to tread that's for sure, and sometimes they overlap, but that is why literary analysis is a thing that we study and do.
Love this and also just want to say that we really need to move past "depiction is not an endorsement" conversations and also push to better understand the difference between depiction versus framing. That alone would clear up a great many of these conversations.
I've been doing media analysis for years now. Even went to school for it. This is easily one of the most common thing that creates communication gaps in how people talk.
Depiction is what's happening at face value, almost like giving a book report summarizing what happened.
Framing is taking the next step by looking at the work as a whole and asking questions about it to understand what ideas the author is relying on you agreeing with, what they choose to have you focus on, what they selectively include or omit, and overall immersing yourself in understanding the overall narrative the author creates with it, intentional or not.
Some basic but important questions you can ask with framing might look like this:
What beliefs does the author rely on me agreeing with?
If someone or something is portrayed as bad, immoral, or untrustworthy, how is the author communicating that fact to me?
What real-world events happened around or before the work was made? (Ex. Looking at any Arab or Arab-like character in a work written by an American made in say 2002 after 9/11) It's valuable to not just look at the work itself, but what events existed around it.
What choices in words does the author use to communicate to me?
What is the author's experience and background? (ex. you might feel differently about a story about say an South Asian woman writing a South Asian character versus a white guy)
If this was a professionally produced work, were there real-world events that complicated the production process? (ex. Was this work written under a time crunch, during a writer's strike, etc.?)
What works or genre tropes is the author inspired or influenced by? What strengths, weaknesses, or biases did those works have?
And once we start to press these kinds of questions and not flatten it to just "purity culture" or "overanalyzing" we can get new insights. The question should be less "is this media 'good' or 'bad'" and more "how does this work frame the topic it's portraying and how does it make me think about this topic?"
I find sometimes people imagine themes or narratives as just "lessons" like you're watching a show for toddlers and being asked to point out the moral, which is what leads them to say "it's fiction, you shouldn't get your morality from this" when that's not the issue.
I also find people often treat media analysis or literacy as something you compete in, something to be won. It also can be treated as analyzing a work is an attack on the work itself and there's a reflexive need to rationalize why it must be positive because you personally enjoy it.
There's also a common pattern where if it's something you can't rationalize, they then argue why it's a mistake that shouldn't be talked about (Ex. "it's a product of its time, it was a long time ago, etc.")
And that's just it--media analysis isn't something you "win!" It's a community based effort because we all come with out own experiences and areas of expertise. There have been plenty of people I've met and am mutuals with who have pointed out things or caught details I never would have noticed because it's outside my own bubble of experience.
Even neater is that these questions and skills aren't limited to just fictional stories either. It's a great idea to ask these kinds of questions when you're reading news articles, watching interviews or listening to statements, even watching commercials or looking at memes. We're bombarded with narratives, for better or worse on a near constant basis every day in ways we don't even realize.
Fictional characters are obviously not living, breathing people, but they are still ultimately puppets of their authors.
Fiction isn't reality, but the influence it has becomes important to discuss when you can analyze say, the portrayal of fentanyl in crime dramas in response to how it's weaponized to reframe nonfictional situations surrounding police when they murder Black people.
A lot of times you can trace an influx of portrayals of marginalized people especially to real world policies being passed, someone becoming popular to put it one enough people's minds, or even medical studies or prescription drugs being on peoples minds.
A lot of murder, crime, and mystery stories perpetuate a lot of ableism.
A lot of sci-fi and superhero stories rely on some kind of racism in how they communicate their antagonistic characters.
So quite often more nuanced discussions get flattened to just someone assuming you're upset about flat out depiction when you're asking what the author is communicating or conditioning you to think on the step beyond that.
It's these steps that help you better spot and challenge propaganda as it arises, and helps you become a better writer of both fictional and non-fictional works in how you can be far more precise in what you want to communicate to your audience.
At its core, media analysis should be rooted in a form of love and community--you get far more value out of it that way than trying to beat others down. It's also far more practical to be able to spot patterns.
I like comparing media analysis to performing magic: you know that magic isn't real--it's a crafted performance by someone. They rely on you focusing your attention on one thing to pull the trick off.
Media analysis is like picking apart the steps behind the trick to better understand what they do to move. It's not "real," but it doesn't mean the magician doesn't put a lot of thought and skill into it.
It means looking at how they take advantage of what they want you to pay attention to in order to pull the trick off.
An introduction to the methods news organisations use to frame a story and influence the audience's opinion of important issues.
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