Media Literacy


"Fact is, everything's changing. Used to be - in the old days - the media roughly corresponded to reality. But now it's all reversed. The media image is the reality, and by comparison day-to-day life seems to lack excitement. So now day-to-day life is false, and the media image is true. Sometimes I look around my living room and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the durn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back."
 Amos
quoted in "Airframe" by Michael Crichton
Media Literacy is not only about television, but about our society. Living in the mountains of northern New Mexico is a choice that some of us have made which "deprives" us of much of the cultural world of billboards, buildings painted with advertising, flashing neon signs, and all the other visual signs of our times. We can look out our windows, and drive through the villages and small towns of our community here and not be besieged with "Amerika", but enjoy the vast empty spaces and views of "America the Beautiful". For this, we need to to remain vigilant as well as thankful. Click on to get a better understanding of how the world is speeding on by us :).

  • Glossary of Media Literacy Terms

  • Media Literacy at Taos Talking Pictures

  • New Mexico Media Literacy Project

  • California Newsreel

    • The syllabus for Ad and the Ego can be downloaded from California Newsreel.
  • Cultural Environment Movement

  • CEM-What Is It?

  • The Culture of Violence

  • Media Literacy - KQED

  • Media Literacy - University of Oregon

  • UOregon-Directory

  • FAIR

    • FAIR is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. We seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. We scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints.
  • Who Own The Media?"

  • Advertising Age

    • The Advertising Industries journal of what they are up to and describes how the Industry works!
  • Pittsburgh Film Makers

    • Pittsburgh FilmMakers is the largest independent media arts Center in the United States and are committed to the advancement of artistic excellence in film, video, photography and digital media.
  • The Television Project

  • TV Free America

  • Media Literacy - Pomona College

  • Center for Media Literacy

  • Michael Ventura
  • TV Free America

  • Articles on Media Literacy
  • Center on Alcohol Advertising

    • One of the purposes of Media Literacy is to teach people about the intent of advertising on our culture. The Center on Alcohol Advertising carries on this work. Do we really think that the Bud lizards are aimed at adults?
  • Reporting on Violence - A Handbook for Journalists

    • "...few news stories on violent events included information about the precursors to violence or how such incidents could be prevented. Our analyses found that it was often what was left out - or perhaps never asked about - that was crucial for a more comprehensive understanding of the issue at hand. Our goal became to expand the range of information available to help journalists craft more meaningful stories.
  • Truth in Media

    • This site is maintained by Bob Djurdjevic in Arizona and is another look at the War in Kosovo.

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