Have you ever had that experience where you’re talking to a friend or a teacher or even just watching Jeopardy or something, and you end up knowing a fact that you weren’t sure you even knew or not and then when questioned about how you know it you realize that you learned ir from a novel or a movie or other work of fiction and you weren’t even 100% sure it was true or not. When you think about it, that probably happens way more than you even thought. On today’s show, Mav welcomes academic librarian Kjerste Christensen to help explore the unconventional yet impactful ways in which people acquire academic knowledge from pop culture, often incidentally. We delves into personal experiences of learning from comic books, films, and other media anddiscuss the reliability of self-researched knowledge, the role of libraries, the portrayal of historical events in media, and the impact of biases in storytelling.
Do you have examples of your own? Listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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