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...
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Sex on TV: Do All Kids See the Same Show?
On sex in soap operas compared to real life: "They don't ever seem to think ahead. They just decide that...
اقرأ المزيدWhere 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...
اقرأ المزيدCancer is an Equal Opportunity Disease
Before you finish reading this column three people will die of lung cancer associated with cigarette smoking. The chances that...
اقرأ المزيدBrave New World: Rediscovering Democratic Media
Frances Moore Lappé, longtime social philosopher and author of the pioneering study of food resources, Diet for a Small Planet,...
اقرأ المزيدThe Power of Numbers: Making Sense of Media Statistics
"TV violence continues to rise, study finds," proclaimed the headline in a major newspaper after the release of the third...
اقرأ المزيدSad Saga of Sister Aggie
The word has come from CBS. "In the Beginning," the new TV sitcom featuring irrepressible Sr. Agnes and irascible Pr....
اقرأ المزيدTV Food Messages and Children’s Diets
In the past few years a battle has raged in media circles about advertising directed to children, especially advertising for...
اقرأ المزيدAs the World Watches: Media Events are Modern ‘Holy Days’
That bright morning in 1961 should have been a normal commuting day. But police monitoring the early morning traffic in...
اقرأ المزيدBlueprint for Response-Ability
Like fish in water, we are seldom aware of the media environment that continually shapes our lives, values and attitudes....
اقرأ المزيدFAMILY: The Family That Plays Together…
I remember family 'ball games' on summer Sunday afternoons. Not every Sunday, but once in a while we could talk...
اقرأ المزيدAnd the Company President Is a Black Woman
Over the past decade, discontent over Hollywood's chronic failure to cast minority actors and depict minority groups fairly in both...
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