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56_CMLEdlPhilosophy.pdf
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DAYTON, Ohio — From the try-it-at-home science experiments of Bill Nye the Science Guy to the sophisticated marketing tie-ins between fast food...
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Childhood obesity may be a growing national health crisis but for 19 students at Sepulveda Middle School in Los Angeles, a three-week pilot media literacy / nutrition program in spring 2005,...
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LOS ANGELES, CA, September 30, 2005 – "Where do I start?" is a cry often heard from teachers who would like to introduce media literacy in their classrooms, kindergarten to high...
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November 12, 2001 - A sign of the growth in the media literacy educational movement in the U.S. is the new strategic marketing alliance announced between the Los Angeles-based Center for Media...
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In reviewing the revised position statement on Technology and Young Children – Ages 3 through 8, we were appreciative of the advances in thinking on the role of technology in the...
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Video production is a richly layered activity
that engages learning and skills on
many levels. It is a form of experiential
learning with attention-grabbing moments,
drama, and heightened emotions...
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A mother comes into the family room where her son is watching a noisy action/adventure show with his school books spread across his lap.
"Michael, how can you watch TV...
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Twenty-one… a magic age on the road from youth to maturity.
In the publishing world, it is said that if a magazine can make it through the first five years, it will make it for ten.
And so,...
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Development and reform of global communications have been a continuing focus of mainline Protestant groups worldwide over the last 20 years. Led by the World Association for Christian Communication...
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454_Stankiewicz_ja01.pdf
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It's the spring of 1876. and people are talking about a new device that promises to handle essential communication tasks previously reserved to humans.
Not surprisingly, its presence raises questions...
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In the fall of 1968, I was a wire service reporter in New York City covering the lengthy public school teachers' strike called over the forced transfer of white instructors by a black-dominated local...
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Of all popular media, television illustrates the power of mass communication to inform, educate and influence the public.
While industry insiders often deny this power, saying television is just...
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A study of Media Education around the world, shows that there are nine factors which appear to be crucial to the successful development of Media Education in secondary schools.
Media Education,...
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A growing body of research suggest that if we teach children to become critical viewers, we do more than give them the ability to analyze the construction of isolated images; we also give them the...
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At first, Dad seemed to reign supreme in sitcom country -- or at least in its better neighborhoods On the bulk of those shows set in the suburbs, Dad's authority around the...
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With children spending 38 hours per week — almost a full adult work week — using and watching the various forms of media that make up modern...
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For some organizations. ten years is the end of an era. For Media&Values. its only the beginning.
We've seen a lot in our first decade. We witnessed the explosion of new media and technology...
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"Absolut Magic" proclaims a print ad for a popular vodka. "Paradise found," headlines another. "Fairy tales can come true" says a third. All these ads illustrate the major premise of alcohol...
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Editorial note: The following article is based on preliminary reports of research undertaken by communications expert Elihu Katz and doctoral candidate Tamar Liebes at the Hebrew University in...
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Critics of television violence research note that media violence experts measure television violence quite differently. George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for...
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A major challenge in democratic education is teaching young people about the need to air opposing views and provide channels of expression for dissenting voices.
In the highly charged atmosphere of...
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Regardless of the candidate/issue covered or the medium covering it, the 1988 presidential election represents journalism at its worst. Each television news broadcast appears to be campaigning as...
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In the vanguard of the Marines, the press corps had already stormed Somailia. Now we will see more of the famailiar pictures of grotesque human degradation, with foreign angels of mercy ministering...
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The landscape from Amos 'n' Andy to The Cosby Show is littered with ethnic shows and characters who have entertained audiences and troubled anti-defamation groups. A long line of Italian mafiosi,...
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The postwar decades, when television was on the rise and bringing dislocation and mini-revolutions to many aspects of American life, were a painful time for school systems. Administrators and...
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Media&Values founding editor Sr. Elizabeth Thoman, CHM, was honored October 10 in Washington, DC with the Faith and Freedom Award for religious communications presented by the Religious Heritage...
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Any reader who has or even glanced through the previous 39 pages of this magazine can hardly fail to be impressed with the wealth of thinking, action suggestions and reflections that represent the...
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Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum
Media literacy is most successful when it is integrated across the curriculum and, thus, related to national, state or district educational standards...
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Preschool children who watched a few hours a week of educational programming perform better on achievement tests over time than their peers who watch more general entertainment shows, according to...
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Television is an amazingly powerful communication tool. Its images of culture, family, relationships, and events give us opportunities to socialize, teach, and inspire both children and adults....
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The Center for Media Literacy advocates a philosophy of empowerment through education. This philosophy incorporates three intertwining concepts:
1. Media literacy is education for life in a global...
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Peoples of all cultures have developed, over centuries, patterns and forms of communication that embrace specific values and have had an important socializing effect.
Such structured forms of...
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The environment is "in" again this season. Thanks in part to all the hoopla of Earth Day 1990, the media have once again climbed aboard the environmental protection bandwagon. But where have they...
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Producer Sherwood Schwartz remembers receiving some strange telegrams shortly after his hit series Gilligan's Island began airing on network television in 1964.
Forwarded by the Coast Guard, the...
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The issues for women in a media world have a long history.
Long before there was advertising to objectify women's bodies to sell liquor; long before there were sitcoms to trivialize...
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When Dekalb County, Georgia's Office of Prevention and Intervention began planning a media violence training, they decided CML's Beyond Blame: Challenging Violence in the...
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The perception of fatherhood has shifted with the forces of social and political tides, according to a study of some of America's best-known...
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During the 1960s, I moved from Georgia to Maryland and then to Connecticut. All of a sudden I was a Southern, white, Protestant female living first in a Baltimore ghetto and then in an Irish/Italian...
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The most significant effect of media is our tendency to test our own experience and perception of life by what we hear and see on the radio and movie or television screen, And today's new media have...
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Have you ever wished you had asked a grandparent or favorite aunt some questions about their unique experiences? Media now provide families with a variety of opportunities to capture the moment. In...
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From FDR's fireside chats to glitzy TV documentaries, politicians have been quick to recognize the power of media. Like product ads, today's political spots are designed to engage our inner emotions...
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"What do you think Bryan feels like? What would Bryan like to do?" Marshall's mother asks those questions often. She wants Marshall to imagine himself in his friend Bryan's place. And Marshall must...
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We've heard a lot recently about the need for parents to have access to the lyrics of rock music. Few parents will succeed if this is a "policing" technique as in "You can't listen to any rock music...
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I remember family 'ball games' on summer Sunday afternoons. Not every Sunday, but once in a while we could talk my father into playing "baseball" with us. We used broken pieces of board for bases,...
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How can we teach our children to make peace rather than war? Teach them to resolve conflicts rather than hide behind walls of fear? One Ohio family's unusual project exercises imagination and...
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In today's media-rich culture, the question, "what is news?" is as enigmatic as Pilate's query to Jesus, "what is truth?" two thousand years ago.
Events of the past decade --Vietnam, Watergate, now...
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Some 400 enthusiastic participants gathered in the hilly, lush green college town of Boone, North Carolina September 22-24, 1995 to talk, learn and share experiences about media literacy. It was...
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Television has a strong influence on the lives of most American families. Here are five specific actions you can take to help your family members become more conscious about what they see and hear in...
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You've probably heard that, as a modern-day parent, you should be watching TV with your kids and discussing what they see and hear. A recent statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, for...
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In the MediaLit Kit ™, the Center for Media Literacy identifies Five Key Questions as the core of our inquiry-based media literacy pedagogy. Where do they come from? Like so many good ideas...
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"Where do I start?" is a cry often heard from teachers who would like to introduce media literacy in their classrooms, whether kindergarten or high school - but don't know where to begin....
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We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentation of things which concern us dearly. It shall ever be our daily duty to...
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Unless a country has all four elements in place, ongoing, and in sync with each other, it will not be able to successfully implement media education for all of its citizens.
— Elizabeth...
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Read Blueprint for Response-Ability
Awareness
What's happening in this situation?
How are people hurting? Benefiting?
Where is the balance between positive and negative impact?
Analysis Political...
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When slaves turn on their masters, there is a bitterness and lack of logic in their attack which they inevitably regret once they have achieved their freedom. Our civilization is just starting to...
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"Give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." -John Milton
Although articulated by an English poet and statesman, the expression by John...
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There was a time - in fact, only 30 or 40 years ago - when children were not spoken of as spenders or customers but as savers and future consumers. Sure, they bought penny candy and an occasional...
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"Who does what with a technology for what purposes is, at least in part, a cause and effect of gender.
Men are more likely than women to be owners and operators of cameras that take pictures of...
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Three things sell newspapers and boost ratings: sex, suffering and silver (money). This at least is the typical formula many news organizations use in planning their offerings. While the decisions...
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Recruiting ads are all around us. Instead of tuning them out or turning the page, put them on the agenda of your study or discussion group. Plan one -- or both -- of these...
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1. Start with your best, most enthused teachers.
A single teacher working alone can often feel isolated and become frustrated; working as a team or group provides support and builds motivation....
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In today’s global society, citizens need the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with different forms of media 24/7. Get CML news and information about media...
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One of the greatest shocks for the western traveler comes from visiting a remote village in a distant land and finding a Michael Jackson poster on the wall and the strains of his latest hit album...
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In recent months the world has seen two instances of local media serving the cause of democracy.
Although the circumstances varied, in both Haiti and the Philippines an organized resistance used...
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A recent gathering of communicators from over 80 countries at the first international congress of the World Association for Christian Comunication in Manila, Philippines provided an opportunity for...
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The advertising budgets of developing countries are on the rise. This is due mainly to the rapid expansion of commercial television in Latin American countries and of public service networks in Asia...
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The mass media operates today as much on an international level as a national one.
What axe we to do, then, with images of the "enemy" created by Western media and disseminated throughout the world...
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Minorities are still invisible on British television — in fact, you could watch for days at a time without seeing a black or brown face. A little research into the attitudes of programmers and...
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In discussions of church computerization, someone invariably points out that the church has survived for centuries without computers.
Then someone else will say, "These times are different. Look...
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What would you know about God if your only source of information were television?
It's a question worth asking this year, with no fewer than four new shows with theological implications. This week...
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"I like this program because it gives me hope that there's life after 50!" –40-year-old woman "The Golden Girls is supposed to be about women who can get along without men – and all they do is talk...
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Like most middle-class children growing up in the 1950's, I grew up looking for the American Dream.
In those very early days of TV, there were no cartoons. There was the Mickey Mouse Club, and Howdy...
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The media world is a lot more complicated for today’s girls and women than it was for prior generations who watched Annette grow up on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s. During...
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Recently I heard a teacher say, "Don't ever try to run a projector, tune a television or fix a tape recorder... if there's a competent third-grader around."
How true. When I was a child, the Brownie...
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Development-oriented journalism need not always accentuate the positive, says communication director Phil Harris, director of training and communication studies, InterPress Service (IPS), but it...
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According to the Quality Statement of the Children's Broadcast Institute in Canada, quality programming for children:
Allows children to not merely be onlookers, but to be important participants...
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What would happen if they held a war and nobody watched?
As Media&Values staff members joined the millions of TV watchers glued to their television sets in January, we began asking ourselves that...
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A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science...
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Last summer from July 31-August 6, I had the privilege of helping to teach the first major Media Education Institute to be held in the United States since the 1970's. Sponsored by the Harvard...
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When the people of prehistoric cultures got sick, they called on the traditional skills of the tribe's shaman, who applied a combination of magic, closely guarded herbal secrets and psychology to...
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"A cool braided California blonde… her perfectly tanned, well-formed legs swinging jauntily. The hair on her arms was bleached absolutely white against a milk-chocolate tan. Her platinum...
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For years moviegoers have been offered stereotypical images of the Arab. The stereotype provides myths and misperceptions which then to influence public opinion and limit the formulation of a...
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On a recent segment of a popular television newsmagazine program, the television anchors joked about a new cultural phenomenon: men's almost anatomical affinity for television remote-control devices...
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An understanding of the impact of cartoons rests in part on an appreciation of the cartoon code, how and why it works the way it does. Under scrutiny, the cartoon code is surprisingly complex, but it...
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Turn on your television set and there is about a 90 percent chance that the first person you view will be male. Yet, although men predominate on TV, questions come up frequently about the types of...
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Editor's Note: Is there ageism in Hollywood? According to a recent report by the Writers Guild of America on employment trends in the mid-1980s, the preference for youthful writers, directors and...
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If Mark Klose, the morning DJ of WMRY radio in Belleville, Illinois plays a song, say by John Cougar Mellencamp, he probably won't play it again for a week.
Unlike the programming on many other...
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A lot of what you are about to read in the rest of this book is based on the premise that teaching the media is not a mystery confined only to a certain erudite set of cognoscenti, but something that...
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There's more to advertising's message than meets the casual eye. An effective ad, like other forms of communication, works best when it strikes a chord in the needs and desires of the receiving...
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Stereotyping is an insidious process. Mental categories and labels are necessary if we are to cope with the fast- paced world around us. Without stereotypes we would have to learn each day what fire-...
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While getting "caught up" in a storytelling experience has been the essence of entertainment since our ancestors told tales around the fire, the relentless pace of entertainment media today...
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A little time and a set of four color highlighters are all you need to evaluate your local paper's treatment of female reporters and newsmakers. A week of monitoring should provide a good sample....
