Describes methods for using television, movies, magazines, comics, and books to increase the learning abilities of children and provide entertainment for them at the same time
Leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum, teach 21st-century skills, and select meaningful texts.
Film critic Owen Gleiberman has been writing about movies since he was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. Gleiberman admits that he has a vested interest in thinking that film criticism matters. He also acknowledges the ...
In Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma, edited by Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock, and Edward G. ... Smith, Erna. 1994. Transmitting Race in the Los Angeles Riots. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, ...
He shares his experiences, providing a guide on how to prepare, experiment, and learn during a media fast (or diet or blackout).
Its imperatives for greater transparency, responsiveness and engagement are behind the trends which are changing our world. This book is key to understanding how to prepare, what to do and how.
In this book, Pickard presents a counter-narrative that shows how the modern journalism crisis stems from media's historical over-reliance on advertising revenue, the ascendance of media monopolies, and a lack of public oversight.
This new edition of Mind Abuse covers developments in the last twenty years, showing how the problem has grown with each new technological innovation and how relentless marketing victimizes countless young people around the world while the ...
This guide to teaching news literacy explores a wealth of resources and classroom-tested lessons that educators in grades 7–12 can use in their own libraries and classrooms.
From Morse to McLuhan Daniel J. Czitrom ... The “penny papers” of this period, led by Benjamin Day's New York Sun, James G. Bennett's New York Herald, and William Swain's Philadelphia Public Ledger, revolutionized the idea of news.
Pits Shakespeare's most famous heroes, including Hamlet, Juliet, and Othello, against such menacing villains as Richard III and Lady Macbeth in an epic adventure to find and kill a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare.