Exercise 4: Beyond the like — seeing differently

Goal: To gently develop critical awareness of how animal life is represented in viral media.

Goal: To gently develop critical awareness of how animal life is represented in viral media.

Instructions

Watch a short, viral video of a non-human animal.

  1. Write your emotional reaction: What did you feel or think?

  2. Learn one or two real facts about the species (behaviour, ecology, perception).

  3. Choose one of two options:

A: Write a short imagined video script from the non-human perspective, incorporating what you’ve learned.

B: Rewrite the title of the original video to reflect a more-than-human point of view.

Uses: Any animal video from social media or viral media feeds





More Than Human Lens Toolkit Fraga Pérez, P. and Prado Casanova, M. (2024) Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cite: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20626432








More Than Human Lens Toolkit Fraga Pérez, P. and Prado Casanova, M. (2024) Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cite: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20626432








More Than Human Lens Toolkit Fraga Pérez, P. and Prado Casanova, M. (2024) Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cite: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20626432