For 35 years, the Alliance for Children and Television has been monitoring the quality of Canadian children’s television and all screen-based content, and actively contributing to the vitality of this industry. The current national study on children’s television programing in Canada provides a unique and timely analysis of children’s programming in Canada at the end […]
L’Alliance pour l’enfant et la télévision (AET)
L’Alliance pour l’enfant et la télévision influence positivement la vie des enfants canadiens au moyen d’activités de promotion, de reconnaissance et de formation pour enrichir le contenu qui leur est présenté à l’écran. Le contenu des programmes doit être pertinent et divertissant, stimuler l’intelligence et la créativité et susciter l’ouverture aux autres. Il doit également […]
Internet Openness: Where do the Parties Stand?
In fall 2009, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) developed new “traffic management” guidelines (TRP 2009-657), meant to prevent Internet service providers (ISPs) from discriminatory interference in Internet traffic, and to make ISPs’ traffic management practices more transparent. Many heralded this ruling as a key step toward protecting one of the founding principles of […]
The Second Spring: Media Literacy in Canada’s Schools
Media literacy in secondary schools has begun to develop in the western Canadian provinces. There is also some interest being shown in the subject in the Atlantic provinces. Quebec has its own stand on Media literacy. In Ontario – where more than one third of all Canadians live – Media literacy is very much alive. […]
“DIY Citizenship” or the “do-it-yourself”
A renewed emphasis on participatory forms of digitally-mediated production is transforming our social landscape. ‘Making’ has become the dominant metaphor for a variety of digital and digitally-mediated practices. The web is exploding with independently produced digital ‘content’ such as video diaries, conversations, stories, software, music, video games—all of which are further transformed and morphed by […]
The Internet and the Ideology of Information Technology
This article explores the commercial potential of the internet, as well as it’s economic and political implications. The author refers to these dynamics as the Ideology of Information Technology.
Adbusters
Adbusters is a reader supported nonprofit magazine for those who wish to “advance the new social activist movement of the information age.” The organization uses media as a forum for social change – including in advertising and corporate media.
Concerned Children’s Advertisers
the CCA has the mission to provide a credible and authoritative voice of responsible children’s advertising and communications in Canada, working in partnership with government, educators, parents and issue experts to identify and address issues of concern in children’s lives.
Media Literacy & Race: “SlumDog Millionaire”
This post brings to light issues of pedagogy present in entertainment and film, as witnessed by those who have critically viewed the movie, “SlumDog Millionaire.” Viewers, including children, watch these representations and take away messages of race based on stereotypes and fallacies. This post seeks to highlight that trend as well as show how students […]
Pauline Center for Media Studies
The Pauline Center for Media Studies is a project of the US-Toronto Province of the Daughters of St. Paul. Their mission is to encourage and promote Media Mindfulness within the context of culture, education and faith formation.
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