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Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum Media literacy is most successful when it is integrated across the curriculum and, thus,…
What Other Countries Do About Ratings
Concerns about media violence shared around the world have spurred regulatory efforts in many other countries. According to a recent…
Reagan’s ‘Image-Makers’ Redefined the Presidency
"In this technological, secular society, we find in television our deepest rituals, rituals that tell us who we are, where…
When Women Talk to Women, HerStory is Finally Told
My grandmother, who raised five children in a small Virginia mountain town as a storekeeper’s wife, who chopped chickens’ heads…
Worlds Apart: Women, Men and Technology
By my early teens, while boys my age were discovering cars and pinball machines, I discovered books and horses. Later…
YOUTH: Teens Need Better Rites of Passage
For many youth there are no rites of passage that confirm their arrival at adulthood, except for the driver’s license,…
Media’s New Mood: Sexual Violence
Researchers are studying the fusion of aggression and eroticism in film and video. They’re asking whether it’s creating a climate…
Whatever Happened to the News?
News has always mixed the serious and the entertaining. The tension between journalism and commercialism goes back long before television,…
Society’s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live
Storytelling is the great process that makes us recognizably human. A story is an attempt to make the invisible visible…
Images of Men in Advertising
"What is a man?" This may seem like an odd question to be asking, but it’s one that’s answered all…