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For my final I have submitted to present a poster at the APA conference on the iceberg metaphor psychoanalysis and media literacy check out the abstract:

The Iceberg Metaphor in Psychoanalysis and Media Literacy Education

This poster presentation examines the iceberg metaphor in critical media literacy discourses through the lens of psychoanalytic theory to ask: what role does psychoanalytic theory have in media literacy education and activism, if any? The iceberg metaphor in both media literacy and psychoanalytic theory works as a mode of unveiling that brings the unconscious to consciousness. In media literacy the iceberg tip is the superficial audio/visual experience across networks of devices, while hegemonic subject positions, representational decision-making, and socio-technical production of popular media are submerged beyond a depth of field. Psychoanalysis employes the metaphor to visualize the unconscious/conscious dialectics in psychological reality. These similarities afford media literacy educators and activists a way to connect the global governance of media conglomerates to the lived reality of the conscious and unconscious in everyday life. While this may be a positive use of psychoanalysis in media literacy we display two concerns for use: 1) Negative stereotypes of psychoanalysis in popular culture and 2) The unfalsifiability of psychoanalysis as a discipline of psychology.