What is “Critical Viewing?”
Since the effects of TV viewing can be both positive and negative, the purpose of this module is to help…
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Abstract: Teachers can improve students’ critical reading and viewing skills through interactive learning activities that make use of a wide…
How TV Works
In television most programs are produced by independent production companies who then sell their product to the networks. The networks…
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…
10 Things Wrong with the Effects Model
This influential article by a noted British cultural scholar succinctly critiques the research school of “media effects” that tends to…
‘America’s Wish Book’ Sells Dreams
Printed and dispersed widely in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, advertisements provided a vehicle by which urban life…
More Media Savvy Than She Thinks
I’ve got a pet theory (I’ve got a couple of them, actually, but only one is worth sharing with you…
Mourning 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…
Media Literacy: Education for a Technological Age
Media literacy has come of age. In a society as mass mediated and media saturated as our own, communication technologies…
Canada Offers Ten Classroom Approaches to Media Literacy
The following article is from the introduction to the Media Literacy Resource Guide published by the Ontario Ministry of Education…