Week 6 Story Lab
For my Story Lab this week I watched the TED talk given by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called "The danger of a single story" . During her talk she states that describing someone as one "thing" or one characteristic continuously can cause that person to become that in someone else's eyes. For example, she heard many negative things about Mexcians from the media coverage that they had become the "abject immigrant" in her eyes. By starting the story differently, the story can completely change. Adichie emphasized the negative impact of single stories on causing incomplete and hurtful stereotypes. The second TED talk I watched was "Imaginary friends and real-world consequences: parasocial relationships" by Jennifer Barnes. Barnes asks why we engage with fictional characters and what effect does engaging in fictional characters has on us? One reason is parasocial relationships, which is relationships we form with someone without ever meeting them,...