I just found the whole of Charlie Brookers ‘how T’V ruined your life’ – the aspiration video on youtube.
I think this is my new favourite teaching resource of the year by a long way – great for teaching media effects, relative deprivation, and for demonstrating to the students just how utterly absured the mainstream media and our culture dominated by status actually is.
I also thought I’d better plug it because it’s had less than 200 000 views on youtube and I think it needs a wider audience – especially relevant to anyone in the US might be the section on ‘my super sweet 16’ – about 14 minutes in…