Open Commission Meeting – December 21, 2010 The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting in Washington, DC. on December 21, 2010, which includes the following items: Open Internet Order: An Order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression. These […]
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
TED Talks, August 2010——- David McCandless convierte series de datos complejos, como el gasto militar mundial, la cobertura mediática, las actualizaciones en los perfiles de Facebook, entre otros, en los diagramas más preciosos y simples. Propone el diseño de información como herramienta para navegar a través de la superabundancia de la información actual, buscando patrones […]
Wikileaks, the Law and the Press (On the Media)
Wikileaks, the Law and the Press December 10, 2010——– In the days since “Cablegate” became international news, there have been a number of suggested strategies to legally punish WikiLeaks and/or Julian Assange. But each would criminalize not only WikiLeaks but news organizations, like The New York Times, that published those leaks. University of Chicago law […]
U.N. Fellows Discuss New Media and its Effects on International Journalism
Using the Web and even cell phones to report news under a variety of challenging conditions was the topic of a workshop on “International Affairs and Journalism on the Internet” that Kentish, along with nine other foreign journalists, attended at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. The journalists, who hail from countries such as […]
Innovations in Newspapers Are Key to Their Survival
Article by Magda Abu-Fadi on the future of newspapers—————“Amid all the gloom and doom of newspapers limping or folding, there’s a ray of hope in the print media landscape, thanks to innovative thinking and risk taking by publishers and editors who recognize opportunities to be seized at the right time. “What we need to do […]
China’s Chess Match: How the web has empowered the people
A CJR article on the rise of the netizen movement in China————-Early in 2003, like millions of other migrants of his generation, Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer, left central China, where he had attended university, and headed for the country’s booming industrial Southeast. His quest: work, and with luck, fortune. When he entered an […]
Reboot
This is an open letter to the Federal Communications Commission about a Media Policy for the Digital Age, by the president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute based in Washington.
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today’s biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs–from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding “terrorists”–along […]
The Mean World Syndrome: The Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear
For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have descended into simplistic battles between those who claim that media messages directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure altogether. The Mean World Syndrome, […]
Kids TV International
For over ten years KIDS TV has been sending artists into the classroom and teaching students Media Literacy and the art of Movie Making. The best student-made productions have been aired on KIDS TV program and shared along with others in their International Video Festival. KIDS TV workshops are offered throughout USA and Canada. This […]
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