Global Experts as part of the UN Alliance of Civilizations works at provision of quick reactions of opinion leaders and accurate analysis to journalists worldwide on complex political, social and religious issues and crises. Global Experts meets the needs of journalists by providing unlimited access to a community of world-class knowledge, including prominent academics, analysts […]
American Center for Children and Media
The American Center for Children and Media is leading the children’s media industry, and pursues the goal of developing child-friendly, sustainable solutions to long-standing and emerging issues. The Center looks worldwide for models of excellence; It offers insight and guidance on emerging and ongoing issues that influence our craft and business, challenging current practices as […]
Children’s Media Organizations
The links provided by this website are good repositories of data and analysis focusing on childrena nd media
Media’s Impact on Children – Understanding media’s role in childhood development
The article discusses the media’s presence in children’s lives and the potentially negative consequences of children’s media consumption. However, it also emphasizes the media’s unique power in educating children and enriching their lives.
MEDIA LITERACY: The Younger the Better
When we think of media literacy, we often think of “knowing the news.” Of comprehending current events. And this is true- but media literacy is also about being able to discern what messages are being sent to you, tracking back to the original source of the messages, and determining what and who you can trust […]
Report on Media Literacy from the 2010 National Council of Teachers of English Annual (NCTE)
As the twenty-first Century begins, we see rapid, large scale changes in the electronic media available to the public for everyday use. At the same time creative teachers are enriching instruction by mixing traditional media, such as drawing and construction, with the use of new media forms and instruments. NCTE has the responsibility to make […]
From Information Literacy to Metaliteracy
From: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/overview/intro/index.cfm ———- Information literacy allows us to cope by giving us the skills to know when we need information and where to locate it effectively and efficiently. It includes the technological skills needed to use the modern library as a gateway to information. It enables us to analyze and evaluate the information we find, […]
Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide
Politics and the media have been inseparable from the founding of our country down to the present day. In the colonial era media came in the form of local newspapers and printed broadsheet tacked up on bulletin boards and distributed by hand. Today media has evolved into the cybernetic world of the internet. In order […]
Body Image & Media Literacy: Q&A With Deborah Reber
From intro……. Here’s part two of my interview with author, speaker and teen and tween advocate Deborah Reber. Debbie also writes a valuable blog for girls and young women called Smart Girls Know. (For instance, check out her spot-on post on the Vogue Paris controversy.) Yesterday, we talked about bullying, body image and stress. Below, […]
Media Violence: Making Sense of the Tragedy in Arizona
About media violence and it’s effect in society—–The work of the late media scholar George Gerbner deserves our attention. Gerbner, who urged us to think about violence in more nuanced ways, found in study after study that heavy exposure to media cultivates what he called “the mean world syndrome” – a heightened state of paranoia, […]
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