A.D.D.: Adolescent Demo Division ($24.15 + free shipping). NAMLE National Advisory Board Member, Douglas Rushkoff, (also a world-renowned media theorist, Frontline TV correspondent and author) writes about the world’s luckiest teen gamers—the Adolescent Demo Division. The A.D.D. are Raised from birth to test media, appear on reality TV and enjoy the fruits of corporate culture, the squad [...]
News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom edited by Paul Mihailidis ($32.60 + free shipping). News Literacy gathers leading scholars, educators, and media makers to explore new approaches to thinking about, examining, and evaluating news media and civic engagement around these fundamental questions: What are the most pressing issues in news, media, [...]
1) What do you do? I am currently the director of PBS NewsHour Extra, the educational resources for the PBS NewsHour. I am also a multimedia producer and photographer. 2) Tell me about your latest work or project in media literacy. My latest project in media literacy is the Student Reporting Labs initiative. Recognizing that informed and engaged young [...]
1) What do you do? The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural arts center with a dual mission in programming and education. Since 2001, our education mission is focused on raising a generation of students equipped and inspired to comprehend, analyze, and create with the tools of 21st century communication: visual and aural media. [...]
Exploring Media Literacy Series by Compass Books. Authors include Erika Wittekind and Barb Paiser ($8.95 each). Each of these 80-page paperbacks are tailored for middle school reading levels 6-7 and address a key topic in the field of media literacy. Students learn how violence is used in the media and how it affects audiences; why media [...]
Media and Terrorism: Global Terrorism. Edited by Des Freedman and Daya Kishan Thussu (Sage/$45.18 + free shipping). Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world’s media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current [...]
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