Educators prepare people for full participation in contemporary culture. The Media Education Lab is exploring the theme of propaganda because it is a ubiquitous feature of our daily lives. As citizens of a global media landscape, the ability to recognize and resist propaganda is important. In helping build people’s critical thinking and communication skills, we […]
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Kids and Credibility
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press in collaboration with the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by […]
Mobile phone journalism helps engage South Africa’s youth
Participants at a special youth engagement session at this year’s World Newspaper Congress in Bangkok were informed about a project that uses cellphone journalism to engage young people. “Engaging the Young: Winners Tell All” took place on Wednesday 5 June, with the aim of teaching members of the news industry that no matter what business […]
Media Literacy for the Global Village
H. Marshall McLuhan believed that the linking of electronic information would create an interconnected global village by collapsing communication space and time barriers thus enabling people to interact and live on a global scale (Barnes, 2001; McLuhan, 1962; McLuhan & Powers, 1989). Today the global village acts as a metaphor for the complex interconnected electronic […]
Film studies in the university students
The film art are the complex means of the mastering of the surrounding world by the person (in social, moral, psychological, artistic, intellectual aspects). Development of skills for the critical analysis of films – an important task of film studies. This book will be useful for film and media educators, scholars, teachers, university students, a […]
Russia in the mirror of the Western screen.
Western scholars have published some books and articles about the enemy image (i.e. Russia) during the Cold War era. For instance, American scholars M. Strada and H. Troper (Strada, and Troper, 1997) T. Shaw and D.J. Youngblood (Shaw and Youngblood, 2010) analyzed a number of American and Soviet movies on the Cold War topic in […]
Positive Image of the USSR and Soviet Characters in American Films in 1943–1945
n the article the author performs a hermeneutic analysis of cultural context, i.e. investigation of media texts interpretation, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the agency / author of a media text and the audience, on specific examples of positive image of the USSR and soviet characters in American films in 1943-1945. The […]
Critical Media Literacy in the 2.0
There is no doubt that technological developments are rapidly changing the way we communicate and, therefore, the demands of what it means to be a literate person in the 21st century. The term Web 2.0, the theme of this issue of Language Arts, refers to changes that have come about because of technology that allow […]
What does it mean to be news literate and who gets to decide?
The goal of news literacy is, broadly put, to teach people how to consume news critically so they know when information is trustworthy—and when it isn’t. But in this growing field, there is little consensus on what type of training works best or how to measure whether someone is “news literate.” This is due, in […]
La competencia mediática en el área de educación artística
En los últimos años la educación mediática ha comenzado a tomar vigencia en distintos ámbitos de la sociedad, principalmente en los vinculados con la comunicación audiovisual y, naturalmente, con la educación. Pero a mediados de la primera década del presente siglo era difícil encontrar estudios que exploraran el concepto y mucho menos que profundizaran en […]
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