1) What do you do? I am the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project), a non-profit organization bringing free media literacy training to youth, parents and educators throughout New York City. 2) Tell me about your latest work or project in media literacy. As far as work goes, The LAMP has had [...]
1. What do you do? I wear many hats: media literacy education consultant; workshop presenter; author; webmaster for the Media Literacy Clearinghouse; contributor to blogs, nings, list-servs, etc. 2. Tell me about your latest work or project in media literacy. My third book, “Media Literacy In K-12 Classrooms,” will be published this month by ISTE, and [...]
Name: Gillian “Gus” Andrews (gandre.ws) Title: Producer What do you do? I’m the producer of The Media Show (themediashow.net), a series of YouTube shorts about media and digital literacy aimed at young adults (with the idea that high schoolers “watch up”). We’re a puppet show with sensibilities somewhere between the classic Muppet Show and, [...]
The documentary film Miss Representation, which premiered last year at Sundance illustrates the rampant extent of gender biases in American culture. Miss Representation brings together some of America’s most influential women in politics, news and entertainment to give audiences an inside look at the media’s message and depiction of women. The film explores women’s under-representation [...]
The S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University brought back a number of alumni to examine football in terms of marketing, advertising and broadcasting and the intersections of different fields in The NFL: 1st and the Next 10. The academic and professional discussion about the future of America’s favorite sport and most powerful entertainment [...]
Frank Baker passed this on to us from Wired Magazine’s Geek Dad blog. “Cultural Anthropologist, Mimi Ito, gives us an excellent summary of just why it is important to engage children with digital media from elementary school onwards. It runs 7 minutes. View the video on Wired.com
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