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From television to t-shirts, from billboards to the Internet, media no longer just shape our culture, they are our culture.		"TV takes our children across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the street."
		— Joshua Meyrowitz

		Recommended Educational Resources CML MediaLit Kit™ / A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age Now all together in one place, the components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML’s Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. Covers media literacy: · Theory · Practice · Implementation Curriculum resources and lesson plans Media Literacy Works: Case Studies and Success Stories in Media Literacy Education

		Articles and Reports From our online Reading Room and Media&Values Archive we've selected pertinent studies, reflective articles, research reports and news items to help you explore this topic thoroughly.
		• "...And the Company President Is a Black Woman" • 'America's Wish Book' Sells Dreams • Addicted to Violence: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? • Alcohol in Prime Time: 10 Guidelines for Writers • Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood • As the World Watches: Media Events are Modern 'Holy Days' • Comics and Culture: The Cartoonist as TV Critic • Creating Cosby: The Power of Television • Dads Through the Decades: Thirty Years of TV Fathers • EDITORIAL: Living With Television: Where Do We Go From Here? • Escape From Gilligan's Island • Family Life is Serious Business in the Comics • Five Healthy TV Habits for Families • Five Important Ideas To Teach Your Kids About TV • God of Prime-Time Television, The • Going for the Gold: The Golden Girls are a Hit! • Guidelines for Quality Children's Television • Home, Home on the Remote: Why Do Men Control "the Clicker"? • How does Hollywood Handle Ageism? • How to Watch Television with Your Grandchildren • How TV Works • How Well Does Television Handle Social Issues? • Imitations of Immortality: How Children Learn a Culture of Consumerism • It's a Whole New Ball Game • J.R. in Hell: Sin and Salvation on the Small Screen • Lifeline or Leisure?: TV's Role in the Lives of the Elderly • Man Who Invented TV Sports, The • Media: A Girl's Friend and Foe • Muktuk and Mass Media • No More Blood at Eleven: Alternatives to Crime Reporting • Outside From the Inside: Television in Jail • Play Ball/Pay Ball: Money and the Future of Sports • Reflections of a Fading Fan • Rise of the Image Culture • Sad Saga of Sister Aggie • Sex and Consequences: Reflections of a TV Writer • Snapshots from a TV Album: Scenarios Explore Family Viewing Habits • Society's Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live • Sports Reporting Reflects Each Passing Era • Sports: Is It Just ‘Entertainment’? • STARTING POINT: Catch the Real Earth Day Fever • Starting Point: It was bound to happen. • Starting Point: Life Before Television? • Starting Point: More than a Game • STARTING POINT: Today's Image Culture and Why Media Literacy Matters • STARTING POINT: Wrestling with Television -- 15 Years of Cutting Edge TV Criticism • Stay Tuned...TV Can be Good For You! • Storytellers Shape Spiritual Values • Studies Analyze Elderly Use of Television • Television Exerts Powerful Draw • TELEVISION: The Search for Meaning • The Culture of Capitalism • TV Violence and the Art of Asking the Wrong Question • Video is Here to Stay • Video Values: Questions for the Reflective Viewer • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • We Are What We Watch: We Watch What We Are • When I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television • When Kids are Watching: Confessions of a SitCom Producer • Where Does it Come From? Where Does it Go? • YOUTH: Wise Dating Is No Game • YOUTH: Music Choices Shape Life Skills • You’ve Come a Long Way, Joanie! • ‘A Comic Strip Writer has Got to Understand Life’

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