GLOBAL: Global Consumers Gain New Self-Awareness
The advertising budgets of developing countries are on the rise. This is due mainly to the rapid expansion of commercial...
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PASTORING: Religion Must Rethink Military Metaphors
A good phrase deserves, if not demands, a turn or two. So it was at a recent civic gathering that...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: Life Before Television?
Even those of us who remember it have forgotten how much the pictures on the small screen have molded and...
اقرأ المزيدLiteracy for the 21st Century: The Hope and the Promise
Since the beginning of recorded history, the concept of "literacy" meant having the skill to interpret "squiggles" on a piece...
اقرأ المزيدWhy Bother Watching?
When you think about it, watching TV is a really dumb thing to do. It's dumb because there's really no...
اقرأ المزيدMINORITIES: Hollywood Sour on Interracial Romance
TV has been teaching the American public since the 1940s. Movies, however, have been providing informal sex education since the...
اقرأ المزيدWhatever Happened to the News?
News has always mixed the serious and the entertaining. The tension between journalism and commercialism goes back long before television,...
اقرأ المزيدMedia Literacy Day ’99 Spotlights Successful Skills for Teaching
Put 100 teachers in a room for a day to hear thoughtful speakers, attend workshops with practical ideas for the...
اقرأ المزيدPASTORING: Media Mirrors Heart of Darkness
A funny thing happened on the way to our cable television studio. We were talking about lining up guests for...
اقرأ المزيدFirst National Media Literacy Conference — Boone, NC — 1995
Some 400 enthusiastic participants gathered in the hilly, lush green college town of Boone, North Carolina September 22-24, 1995 to...
اقرأ المزيدWhen Kids are Watching: Confessions of a SitCom Producer
The insidious thing about television's invasion of the home is not the message of its programs, but the audience that...
اقرأ المزيدTools for Teaching Media Literacy in Faith Settings
Media literacy education provides a perfect opportunity for leaders to teach as Jesus did. Teaching media literacy is a partnership,...
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