Text vs. Context in Media Literacy: A Continuing Debate
The goal of media literacy is to help people become sophisticated citizens rather than sophisticated consumers. The authors argue against...
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Three Stages of Political Advertising
Writing in New York magazine during the l988 primary campaign, media experts Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates, authors of The...
اقرأ المزيدGuidelines for Quality Children’s Television
According to the Quality Statement of the Children's Broadcast Institute in Canada, quality programming for children: Allows children to not...
اقرأ المزيدAttacking Ageism in Advertising
An advertisement for a calcium dietary supplement, recently seen in numerous national magazines, depicts a woman's silhouette frame by frame...
اقرأ المزيدScreen-Agers…and the Decline of the “Wasteland”
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the most famous speech in broadcasting, the Federal Communications Law Journal dedicated its May...
اقرأ المزيدImitations of Immortality: How Children Learn a Culture of Consumerism
A mother reflects on how "commercial media teaches our children to settle for the pose. . .Our challenge as parents...
اقرأ المزيدBirth of the Sound Bite
One of the most dramatic changes in television reporting has to do with the way statements by the president and...
اقرأ المزيدCHILDREN: Helping Children Challenge Male Stereotypes
Stereotypes and over-generalizations characterize the way young children think. In line with that tendency, children learn expected sex roles early...
اقرأ المزيدEndangered Species of the Media World
Peoples of all cultures have developed, over centuries, patterns and forms of communication that embrace specific values and have had...
اقرأ المزيدNative Canadians and the End of Storytelling
Another woman, who identified herself as a school teacher, said: "When TV came to my village I saw an immediate...
اقرأ المزيدSomething New is Waiting to be Born
Our world is in travail. It takes no special sensitivity to realize how pervasive is the stress to which the...
اقرأ المزيدBill Moyers on Political Ads
I don't buy the argument that political spots undermine democracy. In a way they serve democracy by reaching more people...
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