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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Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement — Circa 2001
In recent years, there has been an explosion of educational practices and curriculum resource materials which make use of the...
اقرأ المزيدSex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer
Editor's note: The sexual awakening of James at 15 was tough on Dan Wakefield, creator of the innovative and critically...
اقرأ المزيدAltered States: How Television Changes Childhood
In your award-winning book No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, you deal with television's...
اقرأ المزيدMilitary-News Complex: What Determines What We See and Hear
Students of television have identified more than one way of viewing its role as a cultural force. Recognition of the...
اقرأ المزيدBabylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today
Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modern world. What is generally overlooked is...
اقرأ المزيدMedia&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...
اقرأ المزيدSports: Is It Just
It's an endless cycle. Football now begins in July, just after baseball's All-star Game. By November, basketball and hockey are...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: Issues in the Information Age
For most of us, getting information is still a matter of seeking out some expert or a "trusted friend." Or...
اقرأ المزيدRise of Group Media: an Historical View
For a number of years, Ibarra ("Nim") Gonzales directed the audio-visual service at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila...
اقرأ المزيدWOMEN: Female Roles Still Distort Reality
Feminists have always recognized the power of the media to control women's lives. In the l880s Susan B. Anthony wrote,...
اقرأ المزيدWhen Creativity Isn’t Enough: What Makes Ads go Bad?
As the senior broadcast attorney for a company that owns several worldwide advertising agency systems, it's my job to make...
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