Michael Forsman 234 pedagogy is more about raising shared awareness of social injustices, misrepresentations (non-representations) of non-priv- ileged and suppressed groups. CPM is about helping people in helping themselves to change their situation and position. This means strive for the awakening of a critical consciousness is not so much about truth in a dispassioned sense but more about demonstrating how certain powers in society functions and can be meet and this awareness is brought to existence in an authen- tic union of action and reflection. I argue that both these ambitions and both these orientations (CTM & CPM) is needed in a meta-discussion around media education for the future where media literacy is used as a sensitizing concept (HEPP, 2020) in relation to the mechanism and experiences of deep mediatization. This means that we use media literacy not as a conditional reflex on how to meet the complexity of today’s media ecology and prepare the next generation, but as term for a deeper understanding of media and of the very long-term project of mediatization and the ongoing creation of the critical mindset. 10. Discussion Let me finish by mentioning four tendencies that seem to challenge the critical mindset. Firstly, I want to mention that the “classical” position of left-wing oriented critical mind set, as part of media studies and media education has been challenged by rightwing populists who try to expropriate terms such as dominant ideology, hegemony, misrepresentation. Including classical media literacy questions such as: How was this text constructed, who made the choices behind it, how could it be understood differently, what values and ideologies is it based on, to whom is this of advantage, disadvantage? Kellner & Shares (2019) program for “critical media literacy” is deeply embedded in post-Marxism, feminism, post colonialism, race studies, eco activism and their pedagogical framework is based on Freire’s philosophy. It is about doing and acting, experience and sharing. From a media literacy perspec- tive this is directly related to media production and an aware-
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