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...Access to reality has been severely limited. Today politicians still want the cameras to project their messages but they want it done on their terms and almost never in a natural, spontaneous way.” Grace’s gripes obscure the fact that, as Harvard Professor Kiku Adatto details in her recent book, “Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op,” this transformation could not have occurred without the media’s complicity. An industry more concerned with ratings than information, more conscious of sizzle than substance, sold...
...Timothy Ho, Anthony John Inguaggiato, Kathleen Elizabeth Jacobs, David Jiang, Rohan Kekre, Alyssa Elizabeth Stimson King, Ajay Ganesh Kumar, Benjamin Jiawei Lee, Luke Xiru Li, Yin Li, Paul Peter Linden-Retek, Karan Lodha, Matthew Ryan McFarlane, Taylor Mayly Owings, Aadhithi Padmanabhan, Allen James Pope, Tony Dahao Qian, Adam Emanuel Adatto Sandel, Meike Katharina Schallert, Samuel Conrad Scott, Mark Abraham Shepard, Yen-whei Shih, Melissa Yuwono Tjota, Catherine Lin Vaughan, Amanda Lee Willis, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Crystal Yang, Andy Han Yuan, Elena Yudovina, Rocksheng Zhong
Bakshi, a joint Social Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator—an unorthodox concentration choice—said that art, social action, and social theory have always been interests of his. He credits Lecturer on Social Studies Kiku Adatto as an inspiring mentor who helped him merge his interests...
...Kiku Adatto is a very important academic influence for me,” he said. “She made me realize that the arts could be connected with activism and social theory...
Turning from our perceptions of children to the children themselves, Adatto argued that what we need is "a school curriculum to make us critical and reflective readers of the media." This is a very strange goal. Does Adatto expect us to raise a country full of kids capable of sneering, "Reporter X wrote that, well, you can't take it too seriously then. You know, he voted for Perot"? Even if it were possible to transform children into media wonks at the age of eight, why would we want...