The United States is the world’s largest producer and consumer of media. At the turn of the century the average eleven year-old in the U.S. was watching twenty-one hours of TV a week (Winn) and encountering three thousand advertisements a day (PBS). By the age of eighteen, they will have seen over ten million advertisements […]
DGA report shows few strides for female and minority TV directors
Female and minority directors have made few strides in getting jobs on leading television shows, according to a new survey by the Directors Guild of America.
Do It Your Damn Self! Festival
The “Do It Your Damn Self!!” National Youth Video and Film Festival was created in 1996 when four teens from Cambridge felt misrepresented in the media and decided to do something about it. DIYDS!! takes seriously the responsibility to preserve a tradition of championing the expression of contemporary youth. This festival is not just about […]
#reGeneration Trailer
The award-winning documentary film, #ReGENERATION, explores the galvanizing forces behind the Occupy Movement and the state of social activism in our society. The film takes an uncompromising look at the challenges facing today’s youth and young adults as they attempt to engage on a myriad of social and political issues. Focused on how our education, […]
The You Media Network
YOUmedia are spaces where kids explore, express, and create using digital media. YOUmedia’s core philosophy is that youth are best engaged when they’re following their passions, collaborating with others, and being makers and doers, not passive consumers. YOUmedia are transformative spaces—and catalysts—for new kinds of thinking about libraries, museums, and community centers. The sites are […]
Girls, Boys, and Media: A Gender and Digital Life Toolkit for Educators
Messages about gender roles come from all directions, but some of the most influential messages come from the media. For today’s kids, that means not just the TV shows, movies, and ads they see, but all of the messages and images they create and receive from their friends. Use this toolkit to help students reflect […]
CyberWise
Upon completing the first-ever M.A. program in Media Psychology and Social Change, a pioneering field that focuses on how human behavior is affected by the media and how to use it to influence social change, Diana Graber and Cynthia Lieberman decided to apply their state-of-the-art education and 40+ years of combined entertainment/media experience to the […]
The Living Room Candidate: Lesson Plans
Lessons have been designed for use by high school teachers and students. Each lesson meets national common core standards in English Language Arts and New York State standards in Social Studies, which are specified at the end of each lesson.
Media, Education & Youth
These series of conferences (2004-2008) provide an open forum for exploring media, education, and youth within an international context. It includes screenings of youth-produced media, as well as panels on media literacy education initiatives from around the world. Open conversations and discussions explored the potential of media as socio-economic equalizer in education, the global relevance […]
Global Media Wars
Global Media Wars was produced by multimedia reporters from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Their reports are based on monitoring five state-funded international TV channels: Al Jazeera English, CCTV-I, France 24, Press TV and RT. Each channel is given a score card and followed closely The project was conceived, supervised and edited by Ann […]
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