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Welcome to the Web's major portal for media literacy education.
Site of the Week The "Sexy or Sexism?" Campaign, aims to "redefine sexy and identify sexism in popular culture." |
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“Fix one thing, then another and pretty soon you end up with Barbie,” said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth. And that is a problem, feminist legislators in France, Britain and Norway say, and they want digitally altered photos to be labeled. In June, the American Medical Association adopted a policy on body image and advertising that urged advertisers and others to “discourage the altering of photographs in a manner that could promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image.” From the New York Times article, "Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell" . |
Media are the most powerful cultural forces on the planet. Millions of people watch, listen to, or read some form of media, individually and collectively, for hours every day. In developing countries, people's lives are transformed as media become part of their culture. Media's benefits are accompanied by these concerns:
- Fewer voices, as media ownership is consolidated in the hands of fewer than 10 wealthy individuals and global corporations
- News bias and public relations spin
- Violence packaged as entertainment
- Children and teens targeted by corporate advertisers
- Digital photo and film manipulation
- Media effects on community and personal relationships
Kids and adults love media! Media products entertain us, inform us, and help us connect to our community and the world. How to balance the benefits and the risks? Both children and adults need media literacy education to become wise consumers and effective participants in democracy in a digital age.
We agree with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) that "being literate in a media age requires critical thinking skills that empower us as we make decisions, whether in the classroom, the living room, the workplace, the boardroom, or the voting booth."
Check these definitions of media literacy and related terms. (Opens a new page on the NAMLE website.)
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