Out of Africa: Western Media Stereotypes Shape Images
As a graduate student just arrived from Zambia to study at Syracuse University in 1968-9, I developed the habit of...
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Making Your Voice Heard: Tips for Getting on Talk Radio.
Institutional changes in the way the media operates are necessary to keep healthy democratic dialogue alive. But while we work...
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What Parents Can Do about Media Violence
For 40 years, researchers have asked the wrong question about media violence: Does watching violence cause someone to become violent?...
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Media Violence: What if we Changed the Question?
When Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, assistant dean of Harvard University’s School of Public Health, begins one of her speeches on the...
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8 Ways to Control Your Child
Set guidelines about what is appropriate viewing in your family. Apply guidelines to all media: TV, cartoons, videos, movies, videogames,...
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WORKSHOP REPORT: How to do Assessment and Evaluation in Media Literacy
On Saturday, March 18, Chris Worsnop – one of Canada's foremost media literacy teachers, authors and leaders – led an...
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STARTING POINT: Media are the World; Media Literacy is the Guidebook
A few years ago we edited an issue of Media&Values on “cultural imperialism,” defining it with the slogan, “The sun...
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Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control “the Clicker”?
On a recent segment of a popular television newsmagazine program, the television anchors joked about a new cultural phenomenon: men's...
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Boys Toys: What Does Technology Cost?
From the research reports we’ve cited, it is clear that the cost of new technology goes far beyond the price...
اقرأ المزيدMourning the Late Great Book
Whither the book? In the future, a book may be bought as a bubble-wrapped package containing a dust jacket together...
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Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention
Beyond the blame...beyond the debate...are human beings – children, young people and adults of all ages -- who are daily...
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STARTING POINT: Today’s Image Culture and Why Media Literacy Matters
In the recent movie Avalon, Barry Levinson's sensitive film portrait of an immigrant family before and after World War II,...
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