This manual is based on what was learned during the courses given in the context of the project. During the first semester of the 2010-2011 school year, the course was given at Netanya Academic College and the Oranim Academic Teachers College During the second semester of the same year, the course was given at Levinsky Teachers College.
This course is a critical journey into the existing media coverage and involves a search for structures that can provide a realistic picture, as far as possible, and understanding of the complexity of today’s media. The course comprises the principles of critical media consumption, assessing how the media functions, proposals involving supplementary and alternative approaches to the existing media approaches and the analysis of test cases, using examples from actual media coverage in Israel.