Social media sites like Twitter enable users to engage in the spread of contagious phenomena: everything from information and rumors to social movements and virally marketed products. In particular, Twitter has been observed to function as a platform for political discourse, allowing political movements to spread their message and engage supporters, and also as a […]
Getting Started With Media Literacy: Easier Than You Think
Frank Baker argues that media literacy can easily be incorporated into a school curriculum.
The Urgency of Visual Media Literacy in Our Post-9/11 World: Reading Images of Muslim Women in the Print News Media
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, educators concerned with social justice issues are faced with the question of how media representations powerfully constitute the subjectivities of teachers and students. The roles of Muslim women in society are often narrowly construed and projected via media cultures – an unofficial curriculum of the everyday much more influential […]
Media Literacy Education at the University Level
In recent years, the media literacy education movement has developed to help individuals of all ages acquire the competencies necessary to fully participate in the modern world of media convergence. Yet media literacy education is not practiced uniformly at all educational levels. This study used a survey to compare the extent to which students are […]
Media Literacy Project
Media Literacy Project was founded by Deirdre Downs in 1993. That same year, Albuquerque Academy agreed to house the project and we have remained here ever since. Media Literacy Project is a nationally recognized leader in media literacy resources and education. Since 1993, Media Literacy Project has delivered dynamic multimedia presentations at conferences, workshops, and […]
Free Speech Must Go Hand in Hand With Media Literacy
A column that argues that media literacy should be taught rigorously in a country that allows drug companies to advertise their drugs.
MEDIA LITERACY IN A TIME OF WAR: study guide
This study guide is designed to help you engage and manage the information presented in this video with your students. Given that it can be difficult to teach visual content – and difficult for students to recall detailed information from videos after viewing them – the intention here is to give you a tool to […]
New Media and New Media Literacy
Because many 21stcentury homes are equipped with more robust technology than most schools, there is often a significant disconnect between students’ thinking and classroom demands. Students emerging from home electronic environments have experienced multimedia immersion, participating on many cognitive levels and in many media languages simultaneously. The dominant design of many classroom curricula, however, is […]
Communication for Sustainable Social Change
Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) is an independent organization created as a “Center of Excellence” within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the flagship school of the state’s five campus university system. The Center was created in response to an urgent need for close study of […]
Center for Intercultural New Media Research
The Center for Intercultural New Media Research (CINMR) is a global network of scholars — and a think tank and clearinghouse for scholarship — that focus on the impact of new media on human communication across cultures, nations, and world regions. The goals of CINMR are threefold: (1) Gather, generate and disseminate intercultural new media […]
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