Media Education Center of Armenia is aimed to educate children and parents, youths and teachers to become media literate citizens of a knowledge-based society. We seek to empower citizens to make responsible choices while dealing with old and new media. Our aim is to highlight school children and students how to use media and educational […]
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 […]
Evaluating Media Literacy Education: Concepts, Theories and Future Directions
This article synthesizes a large subset of the academic literature on media literacy education. It first argues that media literacy is mostly defined in terms of the knowledge and skills individuals need to analyze, evaluate, or produce media messages. These knowledge and skills mainly relate to four key facets of the mass media phenomenon, i.e. […]
Fedorov, Alexander (2010). Children and Media Violence: Comparative Analysis. Lambert Academic Publishing, 164 p.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states the right of children for information, but also for protection from information that might threaten their well-being and personal development. In societies that heavily expose children to media, the healthy development of democratic institutions and civil society can be greatly influenced by the impact […]
Teen Voices
The mission of Teen Voices is to support and educate teen girls to amplify their voices and create social change through media. By teaching media literacy skills and presenting alternative viewpoints, we encourage girls to deconstruct mainstream images and direct their criticism at the media rather than at themselves for not living up to the […]
Australian Council on Children and the Media (incorporating Young Media Australi
The Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) (incorp. Young Media Australia) is a unique national community organization whose members share a strong commitment to the promotion of the healthy development of Australian children. Their particular interest and expertise is in the role that media experiences play in that development.It is structured as a […]
The KBOO Youth Collective
The KBOO Youth Collective provides an opportunity for youth under the age of 21 years to gain skills in radio broadcasting that is in the context of an ongoing community radio station, KBOO. We offer a safe and supportive setting where young people from all walks of life can gather to share their ideas amongst […]
Oakland Youth Media
Oakland Youth Media has as a mission to help educators, youth service providers and youth use digital media and television production as essential learning tools. Oakland Youth Media provides the teachers and students with skills, techniques and confidence to incorporate these technologies into their learning process and create digital media projects, television and video programs […]
True Star Foundation
True Star Foundation is a nonprofit multimedia organization that offers Chicago teens innovative out-of-school activities. The organization consists of eight programs that employ 150 student apprentices and seven adult instructors who collectively produce a 44-page quarterly publication as well as teen events. True Star was born from a needs assessment completed by urban youth in […]
BLACK WEB 2.0: A different perspective
Established in August 2007 Black Web 2.0 is the premier destination for African-Americans in Technology and New Media. Black Web 2.0 covers culturally relevant Technology industry news; mainstream Technology industry news; & African-American Technology and New Media Executives, Entrepreneurs and Influencers. They also analyze emerging web trends and how they apply to web properties that […]
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