This new CML Infographic features CML’s Five Key Questions for Deconstruction – each associated with a Core Concept – to ask when deconstructing media messages, regardless of whether those messages are disseminated on social media, video, billboards or logos. These questions are just a starting point for exploration – but they are a reliable starting point that provide a handy way to collaborate with others and zero in on key concerns for making meaning and understanding.
A new article by CML's Tessa Jolls examines how new community norms, driven through social media, call for new ways of looking at how student expression should be encouraged and guided on school campuses. This article was published in: Marketing, Communication, Technology and Innovation in MIL Cities, edited by Drs. Mitsuru Yanaze and Felipe Chibas Ortiz (University of Sao Paulo Press, 2019). ISBN 9 7885572 052290 This book addresses life in MIL Cities, which are smart cities that integrate social responsibilities and goals of human development with new technologies such as blockchain and AI. Contact chibas_f@yahoo.es for more information.
This new CML Infographic shows the three pillars that media literacy rest upon: Deconstruction, Construction and Participation. With new media, participation is a constant, where reading, writing and sharing and contributing and yes - participating - are all part of the equation, whether through visual, aural, digital or print media.
The Five Core Concepts of media literacy (see http://www.medialit.org/sites/default/files/Media%20Literacy%20Concepts.png) inform a process of inquiry that can be applied to any media content – whether you are producing or consuming media messages. This new CML Infographic features CML’s Five Key Questions for Construction/Production (https://www.medialit.org/sites/default/files/5%20Key%20Questions%20For%20Construction.jpg ) – each associated with a Concept – to ask when constructing, or producing, media messages, regardless of whether those messages are disseminated on social media, video, billboards or logos. These questions are just a starting point for exploration – but they are a reliable starting point that provide a handy way to collaborate with others and zero in on key concerns for effective production.
A new podcast featuring an interview with Guna Spurava, Head of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Chair for the University of Latvia, is featured in the February issue of Connections, which examines the state of media and society in the Baltic States: (link to Issue that has podcast and to transcript of the podcast - both are below)
The latest CML Infographic depicts the Media Triangle, which shows our ongoing relationship with media – and today, we serve multiple roles as producers and users of media.
Animated infographic version you can see in our YouTube channel - Media Triangle.
"Roots of Digital Literacy" podcast from Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance series featuring CML's Tessa Jolls discussing the history and importance of media literacy education (Dec. 2018).
Media Literacy is about consuming and producing media. Learn more!
