How to Conduct a Gender Survey of Your Local Newspaper
A little time and a set of four color highlighters are all you need to evaluate your local paper’s treatment…
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This declaration was issued unanimously be the representatives of 19 nations at UNESCO’s 1982 International Symposium on Media Education at…
Media Awareness Education: Eighteen Basic Principles
Media Education is a serious and significant endeavor. At stake is the empowerment of individuals, especially minorities, and the strengthening…
Media&Values Quarterly Corners Common Sense
The heavenly hoopla continues. While the righteous religious right of presidential-minded Pat Robertson, Gospel-honking Jimmy Swaggart and TV-dancing Jerry Falwell…
Summer Seminars Take on Hot Topics in Media Literacy
How could a plain, white towel help a sixth grader improve her language skills? This summer Southland educators immersed them-selves…
Media Literacy 101: Empowering the Viewer
For 16 years, Elizabeth Thoman has been a unique resistance leader, urging ordinary people to be more critical and skeptical…
I Hate It, But I Love It: Television and Listerine
Even though we sometimes hate TV, like Listerine, we also love it. And more importantly we have gotten used to…
In Terms of Media: An Introductory Vocabulary
Like most other field, the area of communication has developed its own specialized vocabulary. Some of the jargon we hear…
Tuning in on 1990: Assessing our Values
Recently the Sisters of the Precious Blood took a “trend census” to evaluate the future directions of society in such…
In Terms of Media: Photography
With millions of cameras owned by even more millions of individuals, photography is probably the most popular hobby in the…