Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go?
When I was growing up in a small Midwestern town, my mother almost always knew which farms the meat, the…
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Abstract: Teachers can improve students’ critical reading and viewing skills through interactive learning activities that make use of a wide…
Canada’s Key Concepts of Media Literacy
In 1987, a group of teachers from the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) drew up the Key Concepts of…
How Media Education Is Like What You Already Know
A lot of what you are about to read in the rest of this book is based on the premise…
Let’s Break the Circle of Blame! US Senate Testimony
For 40 years, the American people have been engaged in a “circle of blame” about media violence: viewers blaming writers;…
News: Beyond the Myth of Objectivity
Objectivity, n. (Apparently,) The practice of presenting both sides of an issue. Spend a week watching any of the network…
News: Balance Bias with Critical Questions
When I read the daily newspaper or watch the evening news, what is missing often upsets me as much as…
Sontag On Photography: Two Views
Photography is the world’s number one hobby. So when Susan Sontag’s On Photography hit the bestseller list recently, it caused…
Critical Viewing and Critical Thinking Skills
A growing body of research suggest that if we teach children to become critical viewers, we do more than give…
How to Evaluate Media Images of Women
At the beginning of my career in the 1970s I spent time actively looking in television and film for characters…