Bodies, consent, and media education: the role of schools and the case of Grok AI

Abstract

Education is often understood as a space for transmitting rules and values, but it is rarely examined as a place for critically shaping representations of the body. This article offers a pedagogical reflection on how artificial intelligence, through tools like Grok AI, contributes to reproducing and normalising neo-patriarchal visions that strip the female body of subjectivity and consent. Drawing on a feminist and intersectional perspective, and employing critical discourse analysis of public materials, the paper demonstrates how schools can become laboratories of resistance and re-signification by fostering educational practices based on consent literacy, respect for otherness, and relational care. In this way, the article outlines prospects for a transformative media education, capable of interrogating the power of images and restoring agency and dignity to emerging subjectivities.