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Media Literacy

You Don't Have to Be Barbie: Girls and Media Literacy

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Logan Levkoff, Teens, Media Literacy, Teenage Girls, Media, Celebrity, Living News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

In the last year, I joined the Board of Directors of Women's Expressive Theatre and Risk Takers. How could I not get involved? I have a daughter and I want her to know that she is unstoppable.

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Media Literacy 101: Of Mothers, Pakistan, Suicide Bombs, and Track II Diplomacy

Susan Moeller | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Media Literacy, Track II, Fear, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombers, Un, Pakistan, World Food Program, World News
Susan Moeller

Too much of what comes back to the US about Pakistan is breaking news of such events as a suicide attack. We Americans project our own fears, our own concerns on them.

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Media Literacy 101: Of Toilets, UNESCO and Demand-Side News

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Unesco, Youtube, Obama, Twitter, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Media News
Susan Moeller

UNESCO wants to teach teachers the world over to incorporate media literacy training in their classrooms, and the Paris workshop is an early step in its launch.

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Media Literacy 101: Cloak-and-Dagger News

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Abc, Islam, Bbc, Voa, Twitter, Technology, Iran, Mcclatchy, Media News, Media Literacy, Facebook, Tiananmen Square, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Channel 4, Youtube, Cnn, Youtube Diplomacy, New York Times, Washington Post, Vietnam, Censor, Terrorism, World News
Susan Moeller

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

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Media Literacy 101: "Allah O Akbar!" has become a cry for freedom

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Islam, Terrorism, Technology, Twitter, Media News, Facebook, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Web 2.0, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Youtube, Youtube Diplomacy, Media Literacy, Iranian Revolution, Abc, Ayatollah Khomeini, Allah O Akbar, Media News
Susan Moeller

The pictures from Tehran are showing that Iranians are not monolithic in their beliefs. Demonstrably they can be both committed to God and to free and fair elections.

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Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Shirtless, Photoshop, O.J. Simpson, Newsweek, Obama Photos, Time Magazine, Martha Stewart, Media Literacy, Celebrity Skin, Media Ethics, Washingtonian, Media News
Susan Moeller

2009-04-21-20090421WashingtonianOba.jpgSaid Leslie Milk, Washingtonian magazine's lifestyle editor, "I know we changed the color of his suit to red, and dropped out the background."

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Media Literacy 101: Of Susan Boyle, Michelle's Arms and Bo the Dog

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Simon Cowell, Turkey, Susan Boyle, England, Media Literacy, Youtube, Media, Media News, Bo Obama, Media Bias, Michelle Obama Fashion, American Idol, Newspapers, Media News
Susan Moeller

How do mainstream media -- on any platform -- determine what is news?

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Media Literacy 101: Power to the People

Susan Moeller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Uk, K-12 Education, Education, Twitter, Fox Nation, Media Literacy, News Literacy, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Higher Education, Digital Literacy, Journalism, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Media News
Susan Moeller

We call our children digital natives. But a digital generation is made, not born. Children must learn not just how to surf, link, load and click, but how to ask, judge and think to understand our world.

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The Responsibilities of Citizenship: A Bundle of Literacies

Charles M. Firestone | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Literacy, Citizenship, Civic Literacy, Bundle of Literacies, Literacy, Cultural Literacy, Charles M. Firestone, Financial Literacy, Charlie Firestone, Media Literacy, News Literacy, Democracy, Digital Literacy, Citizen, Politics News
Charles M. Firestone

Literacy today is not simply learning to read. There are additional literacies -- abilities to understand and operate -- in 21st century America.

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