The Power of Representation

Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom

By Renee Hobbs

Chapter 4: The Power of Representation

“Everything that we know comes from one of two sources: direct real-world experience or mediated experience” (Hobbs, pg.71).

I completely agree with this quote.  All of the information that we have was established from either actually experiencing it, reading about it, or hearing others talk about their experiences. We don’t know things that we have not heard about or experienced before. I have not really thought about this before but it is very accurate.  We are gaining information every day from listening, reading, talking to others, and living our own lives.

I found this image with a quote about experience that I thought went great with the quote that I chose from this chapter. Everything we do the first time is not the best because we don’t know much about it, but once we do something we gain the experience which we will keep forever. We either gain knowledge on things that we have experienced first hand or what we hear about from others experiencing it first hand. We cannot know about everything, but what we do know about is what we have had or shared experience in with ourselves or others.