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A WWW Worth Celebrating
Kids in Canada, Bulgaria and Sierra Leone sharing stories of
schoolyard bullying . International high-school teams who've
created multimedia encyclopedias. The winning sites of the 2001
Childnet Awards remind us what the Web is for.
From Childnet International, 19 April 2001.
> also about:
Australia,
Canada,
Finland,
Germany,
India,
Romania,
United Kingdom,
United States,
Europe,
North America,
Children,
Technology
Multimedia/Internet
Teaching Napster
With exercises, quotes and a role-playing game, media-literacy teacher
Barry Duncan suggests ways to bring the Napster debate — and issues
of copyright and the music business — into the classroom.
From Media Awareness Network, 1 April 2001.
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Canada,
United States,
North America,
Business,
Children,
Music
Teaching Journalism: Al Gore Gives It A Try
Journalists protested when Al Gore showed up to teach journalism. But News Dissector Danny Schechter says the press wrote up the wrong lesson.
From The Media Channel, 14 February 2001.
> also about:
United States,
North America,
Credibility/Accuracy,
Personalities
Politics
Too Much Reality TV?
In a series of thoughtful questions for students, media literacy teacher Barry Duncan uses reality television to explore issues about network competition, media constructions and reality itself.
From Media Awareness Network, 1 February 2001.
> also about:
Cultural Impacts,
Television
Whiteness And Rightness In Japan
Teresa Williams, an African-American teaching in Japan, discusses how
she uses CNN and BBC news reports to foster critical thinking about
racism, white privilege and globalization.
From The Black World Today, 9 January 2001.
> also about:
Japan,
Cultural Impacts,
Diversity,
News Coverage
Whiteness And Rightness In Japan
Teresa Williams, an African-American teaching in Japan, discusses how she uses CNN and BBC news reports to foster critical thinking about racism, white privilege and globalization.
From The Black World Today, 12 December 2000.
> also about:
Japan,
Cultural Impacts,
Diversity,
News Coverage
Marketing Media Literacy
Understanding media, writes Carrie McLaren, involves more than criticizing commercials and deconstructing the news.
From Stay Free!, 5 December 2000.
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Advertising/Commerce,
Business,
Children
Diagnosing AIDS Media
MediaChannel asked journalists, health workers and AIDS activists for comments on AIDS coverage and campaigns. Responses from around the world include both scathing critiques and encouraging solutions.
From The Media Channel, 29 November 2000.
> also about:
Activism,
Cultural Impacts,
News Coverage
AIDS And Media's Duty
How can the media improve coverage of the medical,
social and economic crisis of AIDS? A special report
for World AIDS Day, December 1.
From The Media Channel, 29 November 2000.
> also about:
United States,
Africa,
Asia and the Pacific,
Credibility/Accuracy,
Cultural Impacts,
News Coverage
The Media Response
Media response is hardly in keeping with the grave threat of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. News Dissector Danny Schechter asks the media: What's
gone wrong, and how can we fix it?
From The Media Channel, 29 November 2000.
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Africa,
Children,
Credibility/Accuracy,
Cultural Impacts,
News Coverage
Journalists' Toolkit
Bookmark this! Research tools, interview tips, Web writing guides and more: Essential resources for the working journalist.
From The Media Channel, 15 November 2000.
> also about:
Credibility/Accuracy,
News Coverage,
Multimedia/Internet,
Newspapers,
Radio
Television
Computers and Kids
In the midst of the rush to get children online, a backlash against computer mania is brewing. Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman say we have leaped before we looked, and a crash landing could be coming.
From San Francisco Bay Guardian, 10 October 2000.
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Business,
Cultural Impacts,
Multimedia/Internet
Democrats
Promote government, community and industry resources for universal access to the Internet; federally supported high-tech education and training; government services online; voluntary content filters and blockers for Net and TV; "Fairness Doctrine" rules for free airtime and the right to respond to attacks. Federal funding for arts and humanities.
From Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, 15 September 2000.
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United States,
Access,
Policy/Law,
Politics,
Technology
Multimedia/Internet
Camera Catharsis
These documentaries affect the inner-city kids behind the camera as much as their equally
young audiences. Skyline Community's director, Louis Perego Moreno, tells Nicole
Betancourt about transformation via video.
From MediaRights.org, 29 August 2000.
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Audience,
Children,
Film
Come And Play...
With mud huts, boiled caterpillars and muppets speaking 12 languages, a new South African version of the kids' show "Sesame Street" hopes to use "social engineering" to build harmony. Rena Singer reports.
From The Christian Science Monitor Online, 4 August 2000.
> also about:
South Africa,
Children,
Cultural Impacts,
Diversity
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