Open AccessMedia constructs of identity in the pandemic era – some educational and development implications
Author(s) -
Magda Karkowska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
podstawy edukacji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-2848
pISSN - 2081-2264
DOI - 10.16926/pe.2020.13.06
Subject(s) - identity (music) , psyche , subject (documents) , epistemology , pandemic , reading (process) , sociology , covid-19 , period (music) , psychology , aesthetics , political science , law , computer science , philosophy , medicine , disease , pathology , library science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The main purpose of the author of the article is to analyze the way in which COVID-19 content in the media influences the shaping of the identity of their recipients. I ask whether they fulfill their functions properly, being by definition a place of constructing experiences, sensations and opinions of people. What vision of the world appears after reading the materials, the subject of which are social changes caused by the epidemic situation? In search of answers to these questions I apply such analytical tools like functions and models of identity. I present a thesis about the violation of the developmental idea of the individual’s assimilation with culture, as well as the violation of the integrity of the psyche in relation to three approaches to identity: sociological, psychological, and philosophical, illustrating the analysis with examples taken from the media in the period from March 20 to April 25, 2020.