A group of Chicago youth media organizations have embarked on an evaluationprocess with adult program alumni to assess the degree to which hands-on mediaproduction and dissemination contributes to developing productive, independent, andengaged citizens. This report sets the stage for the evaluation, which began in late 2012and will run through 2013, highlighting the work of youth […]
Program or be Programmed
Rushkoff’s latest work, Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, sets aside tired debates about the societal value of the Internet and instead posits that the crucial question at hand is whether we direct technology, or let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it. This article gives an […]
Google Grants $1.2M to Help Analyze Female Roles in TV, Film
The Geena Davis Institution on Gender in Media, which is getting the $1.2 million grant from Google, devotes to improve the images of women that young people see in films and TV shows. As Google director Jacquelline Fuller said: ” We’re supporting their promotion of gender quality in U.S. family films by enabling them to […]
Developing an Ethics of Youth Media Production Using Media Literacy, Identity, & Modality (JMLE 4:3)
This critical, theoretical paper conceptualizes what determines an ethics for youth media production. Through discussions of media literacy, identity, and multimodality, I attempt to shift the question away from “What are the ethical ways in which youth use media?” toward the question “What are the ethics we have created as media literacy educators within which […]
Computers in the Classroom: A Mindful Lens on Technology
Digital technology is commonly used in contemporary society, but not everywhere in the classroom. How could it happen? Why is the reasons underneath the phenomenon? The article discusses the argument from three perspectives: context is critical, actual or virtual reality and know your medium.
Up for Debate: How Personal Video Can Change the World
This article is the first in a 7-part series originally written for the Skoll World Forum as part of a debate among global leaders about the role of the media in accelerating social progress. The executive director of WITNESS shares her 4 perspectives on how media needs to be infused with “super powers”. 1. A […]
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal confessions, and ongoing accounts of people’s every move. She found the whole thing perplexing.
The Unbearable Literacy of Media: Travels in the Reality-Based Community
“And whose the shame, at every mute micromillisyllable, and unslakable infinity of remorse delving ever deeper in its bite, at having to hear, having to say, fainter than the faintest murmur, so many lies, so many times the same lie lying denied, whose the screaming silence of no’s knife in yes’s wound, it wonders.” – […]
Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
The Center for Social Media is proud to announce the upcoming release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education on November 11, 2009. This code is a step-by-step guide to fair use in an academic setting that enables teachers and students who use popular culture to know when their […]
Young, poor and creative in San Diego
In October AjA students’ work was used as support material for a piece on youth living in poverty, featured on American Public Media’s Markeplace radio show. The students were a part of this summer’s PhotoCity, a program that asks youth to turn the lens outward and critically examine community issues. This program, focusing on land […]
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