Category: Media Literacy

  • The Hearts After Dark Project: Replaying Kingdom Hearts Through a Sociological Lens

    The Hearts After Dark Project is my long-form Kingdom Hearts stream and thought project. This time, instead of replaying the series just to follow the lore, I’m looking at its worlds through a sociological lens: identity, institutions, belonging, power, personhood, memory, and connection.

  • Miriallia Haw and the Right to Investigate in Gundam SEED

    Miriallia Haw begins Gundam SEED as a civilian caught inside a war, becomes an Archangel operator, and later travels as a freelance photographer. Across SEED, Destiny, and Freedom, her changing role reveals why witnessing matters, why images need context, and why truth requires independence from wartime spectacle and official power.

  • Investigate: Why Truth Requires More Than Scrolling

    Scrolling gives us information, but information is not the same as knowledge. Timothy Snyder’s eleventh lesson in On Tyranny asks us to investigate: to protect our attention, verify what we share, support journalism, resist manufactured cynicism, and accept responsibility for the public world our media habits help create each day.