{"id":237,"date":"2025-02-04T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/discoveringstudent\/chapter\/questions-for-media-makers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:11:02","slug":"questions-for-media-makers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/discoveringstudent\/chapter\/questions-for-media-makers\/","title":{"raw":"Questions for Media Makers","rendered":"Questions for Media Makers"},"content":{"raw":"Point out that in many cases, media makers don\u2019t use stereotypes on purpose: they use them because they think their audiences expect them, because they are a part of the genre, or because they didn\u2019t think to question the stereotypes they\u2019re familiar with.\r\n\r\nAsk the class: What questions do you think someone who writes a new fairy tale should ask to avoid common stereotypes?\r\n\r\nSome possible examples:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Does my hero have to be a prince or princess?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>If my character is a girl or woman, does somebody else have to rescue them?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Do they have to be young?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Does the enemy have to be old?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>If my character\u2019s enemy is an animal, are those animals really like that?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Does the hero succeed or fail just because they follow the rules (or don\u2019t follow them)?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Does it have to end with the hero and heroine getting married?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNow have students access the student chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/discovering\/chapter\/questions-for-media-makers-2\/\">Questions for Media Makers<\/a> and\u00a0 come up with four to six questions they would like media makers in a particular genre to ask themselves so as to avoid using stereotypes without meaning to. 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