From viral memes to so-called “fake news,” the web is overflowing with information — true, false, and everything in between. For many kids, this makes the web a challenging place to find credible and reliable sources. So what’s the best way to help your students use the web effectively as a fact-checking tool? Here you’ll […]
Arresting Knowledge
Arresting Knowledge is a touring interactive docu-series designed to inspire critical thinking about media. The mission of Arresting Knowledge is to support a national conversation around media literacy that leads to incremental shifts in thinking and behavior. We’re committed to making complex information accessible to people of all education levels. There’s lots of talk about […]
How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering
Several years ago, while staring at a photograph of torture on the front page of the newspaper, I began seriously asking myself a question that many people had asked before: What should one do when faced with images of violence? I spent thirteen years researching the question, which became more urgent as those years passed […]
Center for News Literacy’s 2017 Global Conference
Papers presented at the Center for News Literacy’s 2017 Global Conference, Stony Brook University, USA Link: http://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/globalconference2017/papers/Author: variousSource: Center for News Literacy
Net Positive, Internet Health Film Shorts
On Saturday, July 29, 2017, Rooftop Films and Mozilla presented a screening of thought-provoking short films about our favorite shared resource, the Internet. You can watch the films presented and discussed on the link. Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2017/07/31/net-positive-internet-health-film-shorts/Author: MozillaSource: Mozilla
Media Literacy: Entrevista con Jordi Torrent
Fecha publicación: Mayo de 2007 En esta entrevista con RIO MEDIOS, Torrent afirma que la alfabetización mediática es mucho importante hoy en día. En el mundo industrializado, destaca el director, la mayoría de los niños y jóvenes gastan entre 8 a 10 horas por día consumiendo medios de todos los tipos: “En términos anuales, esto […]
The Journal of Media Literacy Education (Volume 9, Issue 1, 2017)
The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education. It is the official journal of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. No author fees are charged for publication in this journal. Link: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/Author: severalSource: JMLE
Fight fake news by making media literacy part of core curricula
Opinion article. In this era of fake news, covfefe, and biased advocacy journalism outlets like Fox News and MSNBC, how can news consumers surf through this wave of information that bombards us daily? When I ask my students whether they’ve received training in media literacy, the response is often shrugs and blank stares. Freshmen frequently […]
Unpacking Gender Bias in Advertising
New joint research from The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University and J. Walter Thompson New York, in collaboration with University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, analyzed more than 2,000 films from the Cannes Lions archive (English language only). It reveals that men get about four times […]
PROPAGANDA AND ITS TECHNIQUES
Why Propaganda Matters During the 20th century, there was plenty of public discourse about propaganda. Unfortunately, in recent years, the study of propaganda has diminished in many educational settings. At the same time, we are surrounded by more messages than ever with near-constant exposure to advertising, the 24-hour news cycle, and an ever-expanding array of […]
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