Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen embark on the first of several conversations about "Popular". What does it mean to say that something is "popular"? Who decides what is popular? Does popular culture represent our deepest hopes and aspirations or is it something that is created for and delivered to us?

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Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen continue their conversation on Identity, Social Media and Violence with a special focus this week on practical ways that we can engage educators and parents in the conversation. What do we need to be aware of in terms of the developing identities of our children as they grow up?

Using recent violence in New Zealand as a backdrop, Neil and Carol explore the points of intersection between violence, media and identity, with a special focus on the role of social media in helping to weave new and more public narratives.

What role does/do Social Media play in the enactment of world events? Have social media users, in a sense, become a form of media? What role does social media play in the erosion of empathy among citizens of the global village? What new conversations do we need to be having about the impact of 24-hour streams of content?

These questions (and more) are explored on this week's episode of Mediacy.

In this episode, Neil and Carol dig deeper into what it means to live in a culture of ubiquitous screen time and screen presence. From selfies that help identify and place us in the world, to questions of when and where selfie images are appropriate, its a deeper dive into our life on in and in the screen.

Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus join Stephen Hurley to talk about how might we discover and respond to the effects of ubiquitous cameras and screens in our society.

In this opening episode of the Mediacy Podcast, Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen draw the circle wide around the media literacy landscape, underline the importance of seeing all aspects of our life as mediated, and provide us with three important questions to help frame our media literacy conversations.