NAMLE is governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors that works through an active committee structure to conduct the business of the organization and plan its future. Members are elected for two year terms and may serve three terms before rotating off for at least one year.
Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control: Language Deception and Digital Democracy. by Ricardo D. Rosa & Joao J. Rosa (Peter Lang/$34.95 + free shipping). Supported by critical theoretical frameworks, the text is a purposeful engagement with bodies of knowledge rooted in popular culture, yet, routinely excluded from “common sense”; visions of curriculum. Aimed at [...]
Media Education Goes to School: Young People Make Meaning of Media & Urban Education. by Allison Butler (Peter Lang/$32.53 + free shipping). This book examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research–specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation–the text focuses on [...]
Oct. 22nd, 8 AM – 4 PM; Media Literacy, a Focus on Youth: Learning, Collaborating, and Creating the Future of Education NAMLE Organizational Member, HOME, Inc., MIT, and the Barr Foundation, present a one-day conference on Media Literacy. The event is scheduled for October 22nd and will take place at the MIT Campus: Building E51 [...]
On September 12th, in honor of the “9-11 Weekend of Remembrance” the global NetGeneration of Youth will host their second in a series of Global Parties with a Purpose. NetGeneration of Youth (NGY) Ambassador Clubs at six sister site schools in the US and throughout Africa (Uganda, South Africa and Zambia) will conduct local youth led parties that celebrate life and [...]
The first of a few thoughts from NAMLE member Frank Gallagher, Executive Director of Cable in the Classroom, coming out of an interesting NAMLE conference in Philadelphia. Frank blogs about how a visit by Revolutionary War characters at the 2011 NAMLE Conference in Philadelphia prompted thinking about how media colors our understanding of history in his post: An [...]
To note where NAMLE has come in its first decade, Renee Hobbs and Amy Petersen Jensen, co-editors of the Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE), asked several established and emerging scholars and practitioners to write short essays that address the following questions about the field of Media Literacy Education: What’s your sense of the movement [...]
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