A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal confessions, and ongoing accounts of people’s every move. She found the whole thing perplexing.
Service For Peace-Sierra Leone-Men Engage Youth Alliance
Service For Peace-Sierra Leone (SFP-SL) is a voluntary, community based, international and non-profit making organisation that operates in Sierra Leone and has its branches in other countries of which the Africa head Quarter is based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The organisation was established in order to achieve lasting peace and improve the quality of the […]
Digital education in Kenya: Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results
UNTIL recently Grace Wambui, a 14-year-old pupil in Nairobi, had never touched a tablet computer. But it took her about “one minute”, she says, to work out how to use one when such devices arrived at her school, a tin shack in Kawangware, a slum in the Kenyan capital. Other students at Amaf School were […]
The Unbearable Literacy of Media: Travels in the Reality-Based Community
“And whose the shame, at every mute micromillisyllable, and unslakable infinity of remorse delving ever deeper in its bite, at having to hear, having to say, fainter than the faintest murmur, so many lies, so many times the same lie lying denied, whose the screaming silence of no’s knife in yes’s wound, it wonders.” – […]
Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
The Center for Social Media is proud to announce the upcoming release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education on November 11, 2009. This code is a step-by-step guide to fair use in an academic setting that enables teachers and students who use popular culture to know when their […]
Young, poor and creative in San Diego
In October AjA students’ work was used as support material for a piece on youth living in poverty, featured on American Public Media’s Markeplace radio show. The students were a part of this summer’s PhotoCity, a program that asks youth to turn the lens outward and critically examine community issues. This program, focusing on land […]
AjA: Youth and Photography Transformation
The AjA Project provides photography-based educational programming to youth affected by war and displacement; students think critically about their identities, develop leadership skills, and become agents of personal and social transformation.
Aspen Institute Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy
As the movement for media literacy education emerged in the US in the early 1990s, there were many questions and opinions about what media literacy was all about. For the most part, media education activities were limited to grassroots efforts — an innovative teacher here, a pioneering school district there; some efforts were concerned about […]
Pérez Tornero reflects on Media Literacy in times of crisis
José Manuel Pérez Tornero, director of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), reflected on media literacy in times of crisis during the Media Literacy Conference of the European Commission. The Spanish researcher hosted the conference on Media literacy in times of crisis at the invitation of the European […]
Geena Davis to Ms.: “It’s All About Feminism!”
The “Sexy Baby” documentary takes a closer look at how the Internet age is perpetuating negative images of females, in particularly young girls. The film highlights the perspective of kids in middle school. “I think we are in the middle of a bad trend, which is this over sexualization of female characters, female images that […]
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