admin CHILDREN: Media’s Message Can Fool Kids
The effects of media on young children are not simply watered-down versions of the effects on older children and adults.…
PASTORING: Preaching Is Pastoral Prime Time
With a million other demands to consider, why should a pastor take the time to study media? Even more important,…
What are You Worth? Audience for Sale
What is the purpose of radio and television? When I start my first-year broadcasting students off with this question in…
Framework for Social Analysis
Read Blueprint for Response-Ability Awareness What’s happening in this situation? How are people hurting? Benefiting? Where is the balance between…
Blueprint for Response-Ability
Like fish in water, we are seldom aware of the media environment that continually shapes our lives, values and attitudes.…
Creating Cosby: The Power of Television
Of all popular media, television illustrates the power of mass communication to inform, educate and influence the public. While industry…
Making the Media Work for You: Action Ideas for Families
Ever think about what happens at your house when the phone rings? You put down the bank statements and the…
Television Exerts Powerful Draw
Television exerts a powerful draw on people. I’ve seen adults drawn into fast action in the after dinner kitchen cleanup…
Mapping A Geography of Media
Many people occasionally feel an urgent desire to escape, at least temporarily, to some media-free zone of living. This is…
Brief History of Media Education, A
“How did we get here?” It’s not just a question for those who are lost. Some think that we can…