Lessons Learned: How to Evaluate War Reporting
In coverage of the war in the Middle East, as in coverage of earlier wars, "quicker" seemed to be better,...
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Making a Case for Media Literacy in the Classroom
The necessity for and methods of media literacy education are often absent or unclear for many teachers and parents. Teachers...
اقرأ المزيدMedia Literacy 101: Empowering the Viewer
For 16 years, Elizabeth Thoman has been a unique resistance leader, urging ordinary people to be more critical and skeptical...
اقرأ المزيدA Reflection on Media in the Third World
Outside the United States, everyone knows the U.S. is the most influential country in the world. Its economics, education, politics,...
اقرأ المزيدMixed Blessings: A Perspective on the Coming Computer Age
The "Information Age" is dawning. We all know it, we see it around us in new products and services which...
اقرأ المزيدThe Technological Child
We'll call her Susan. She is 32, happily married to Brad, a successful aerospace engineer, lives in the home of...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: More than a Game
One of the challenges of publishing Media&Values is selecting an issue-theme which does not already have a significant body of...
اقرأ المزيدWOMEN: Using Female Bodies For Sales and Profit
Dismembered bodies — thighs, breasts, anus lie strewn across the television screen… exotic women drape themselves over leopard-skin rugs seductively...
اقرأ المزيدToying With War
Many young children in day-care centers around the country are regularly acting out fantasies from today's most popular cartoons and...
اقرأ المزيدGLOBAL: It’s a Small World For Pop Conglomerates
One of the greatest shocks for the western traveler comes from visiting a remote village in a distant land and...
اقرأ المزيدCHILDREN: Learning to Decipher TV Culture
How many two-year-olds do not know Big Bird or can't recognize the Golden Arches? Speaking, listening, writing! reading, and watching...
اقرأ المزيدAddicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare?
At a psychological level, the drama and titillation of violent scenarios serve to create a sense of excitement, potency and...
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