Our Culture of Addiction
“No street-corner crack dealer ever had a better line than the one Madison Avenue delivers at every commercial break: Buy…
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This influential article by a noted British cultural scholar succinctly critiques the research school of “media effects” that tends to…
Building Citizenship Skills through Media Literacy Education
Hobbs, R. (1998). Building citizenship skills through media literacy education. In M. Salvador and P. Sias, (Eds.) The Public Voice…
Bridging the Gap: Sharing Your Family’s Life Stories
Picture your most recent family get together. Dinner, TV, maybe an argument over what to watch? How about an evening…
Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages
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;…
From Savers to Spenders: How Children Became a Consumer Market
There was a time – in fact, only 30 or 40 years ago – when children were not spoken of…
Teach Kids to Make TV!
In a documentary I produced some years ago called Part Time Work, 17-year-old Danny recognizes that he’s wasted his high…