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Media literacy education provides a perfect opportunity for leaders to teach as Jesus did. Teaching media literacy is a partnership,…
Christian Discernment in a Mass-Mediated Culture
"With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: ‘You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you…
Catholic Church’s Challenge: Critical Consciousness
The Catholic Church has spoken about the power of media since the invention of the motion picture. Its concern has…
Why Media Literacy? A Catholic Reflection
We live in the information age. It’s said often, but what does it mean? Let’s examine it. The amount of…
Who Tells the Stories?: Catholic Media Literacy Curriculum Published
LOS ANGELES, CA, September, 1993 — Reclaiming the story-telling and value-assigning roles that media, especially television, have taken over from…
Real News vs. the Newsreel
While the outcry over muzzling the news media and thus controlling public information reached a fever pitch recently with keeping…
Aspen Institute Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy
As the movement for media literacy education emerged in the US in the early 1990s, there were many questions and…
Why is Media Literacy Important? A Personal View
Looking at this audience full of my friends and of supporters of the Center, and I feel very humble. And…
Learning for the 21st Century
"A simple question to ask is, ‘How has the world of a child changed in the last 150 years?" And…
The Bribed Soul: Ads, TV and American Culture
Television-watching Americans — that is, just about all Americans — see approximately 100 TV commercials a day. In that same…