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Walking down the corridors of a middle school in suburban Massachusetts, the distinctive sound of a television commercial stands out…
Aspen Media Literacy Conference Report – Part II:
The Aspen Institute Wye Center Queenstown, Maryland December 7-9, 1992 Media literacy, the movement to expand notions of literacy to…
The Technological Child
We’ll call her Susan. She is 32, happily married to Brad, a successful aerospace engineer, lives in the home of…
God in the Machine: Computers As Idols
In discussions of church computerization, someone invariably points out that the church has survived for centuries without computers. Then someone…
Rise of Group Media: an Historical View
For a number of years, Ibarra (“Nim”) Gonzales directed the audio-visual service at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila…
Photolanguage: Philippines
Photolanguage is a technique that utilizes evocative and symbolic pictures for self-expression, communications and group development. The term was coined…
What are Group Media? An Early Experiment in Media Education
Finding an adequate and descriptive term for a new concept or program is always a challenge. In the case of…
Challenge of Group Media, The
From Nigeria to Indonesia a new approach to communications has emerged in the past decade. Called “group media” or ‘group…
Our New Phone Systems: Making Human Connections
If you’re like most people, you’re dubious, to say the least, about the possibility of talking to your ORT screen.…
Say Hello To Some New Ideas On Telephoning
On Thursday, June 1, 1982, a delivery truck eased to a stop at Federal Communications Commission headquarters and a perspiring…