Recently added articles from Afterimage:
Mind over matter: modern media literacy.
Sep 01, 2009; Vanmeenen, Karen ... According to an established and oft-quoted definition from the Aspen Institute Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy in 1989, media literacy is "the ability to access, analyze, communicate and produce media in a variety of forms." Even more comprehensive ...
Media literacy and the tyranny of the narrative.
Sep 01, 2009; Tyner, Kathleen ... Media literacy seeks to address the proliferation of new literacy practices in an increasingly mobile, global, digital world. Broadly analogous to print literacy, media literacy promotes the analysis (reading) and production (writing) of texts in a variety of forms. In practice, ...
Facebook, the image, and the virtual Cedar Bar.(facebook)
Sep 01, 2009; Conner, Jill ... By early 2009, the art world migrated away from the waning excitement that once swirled throughout galleries, cafes, and bars, only to continue more cohesively within the new, alternative social networking website Facebook. During the last six months of 2008, there was a 267 percent ...
The power of fair use for media literacy education.
Sep 01, 2009; Hobbs, Renee ... A little animated bird lands on the windowsill of a big building in urban America, where it begins to sing: "Copyright's for the people | Copyright is to promote creativity | Balancing rights of owners and users of intellectual property." But a character named Big C, high up in one of the ...
Analog to digital: the indexical function of photographic images.
Sep 01, 2009; Dzenko, Corey ... Marshall McLuhan describes the impact of new media with the phrase "the medium is the message." McLuhan's "medium" is any extension of the human senses and he focuses on media such as print, photographs, telephones, and weapons throughout his text Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man ...
City as screen/body as movie.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Willis, Holly ... Let's start with a photograph taken by Hiroko Masuke--of a billboard featuring an ad for the television miniseries The Andromeda Strain that was printed in the New York Times a year ago. (1) The billboard includes a large, horizontal poster for the series, along with a video display ...
Convergence citizens: the new media literacy of pre-school television.
Sep 01, 2009; Shore, Amy ... When Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969, the media landscape for pre-school-age children was limited to what we now refer to as "old media" technologies: television, radio, and print media. The show's innovative programming design, which integrated animation, live action "street" ...
Lost literacy: how graphic novels can recover visual literacy in the literacy classroom.
Sep 01, 2009; Gillenwater, Cary ... Our society is dominated by imagery. From television to films to magazines to the internet--we are saturated with it. Yet, in schools, many educators persist in teaching a one-dimensional concept of literacy, while students learn to negotiate their out-of-school experiences with images via ...
Connecting cultures: new dynamics in global media literacy.
Sep 01, 2009; Mihailidis, Paul ... In the current hypermedia age, the borders of information are increasingly indistinguishable. There now exist few, if any, limits to how far, fast, and wide messages may travel. Across the globe--from the growth of community internet in rural Europe and the Middle East, (1) to the ...
Gorbachev in Disneyland.
Sep 01, 2009; Sawyer, Robert A.B. ... <Pre> A kind of unintentional parody hovers over everything, a tactical simulation, a consummate aesthetic enjoyment [jouissance], is attached to the indefinable play of reading and the rules of the game. Traveling signs, media, fashion and models, the blind but brilliant ...
Mind the film: photographs and films with lost narratives.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; Peraica, Ana ... This essay highlights the enforced reception of documentary genres and in particular, the limitations of documentary filmic and photographic images of war through the implementation of socialistic ideology. We must approach all "historical" documents with skepticism, especially master ...
Media arts and elementary-age children: creating active producers from passive consumers.
Sep 01, 2009; Guerrero, Pia ... In 2004, I worked as the Director of Art and Public Education at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (EBCPA) in Richmond, California, and was presented with the challenge of developing a media literacy curriculum for local elementary school children. Working with young children was ...
Media literacy, media service.
Sep 01, 2009; Saffron, Jen ... "We're going to interview the original Freedom Riders," I announced as we rumbled through Montgomery, Alabama, in a 105-degree van, camera gear stacked in the back. "Don't screw it up." This directive barely masked my insecurities as the new video students sat silently in the back. ...
Pedagogy in action: Urban Images in Film and Media.
Sep 01, 2009; Ciezadlo, Janina ... Distinctions concerning what things are, how we define things, how they appear, and what their appearance tells us about them, are quixotic. In the case of cities, which have long been represented in art, literature, and photographic and electronic media, a second level of complication ...
KIDS TODAY!(Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Schwarz, Gretchen ... Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives By John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Basic Books/2008/375 pp./$25.95 (hb) They are different. They are not a new race of humans, not without the same old issues, frailties, and faults. Digital ...
REMAKING MEDIA.(Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde 1900-1937)(Book review)
Sep 01, 2009; Mulroney, Lucy ... Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde 1900-1937 Edited by Stephen Bury The British Library/2007/160 pp./[pounds sterling]15.95 (sb) Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art By Liz Kotz The MIT ...
Moving beyond media 101: recent media education anthologies.(Recommended readings)
Sep 01, 2009; Duncan, Barry ... In recent years, several anthologies have been published on media literacy/education addressing both theoretical and practical considerations. All of these have made important contributions to an evolving pedagogy. Fortunately, most of them go beyond introductory perspectives and often ...
Capitalism hits the fan: Richard Wolff on the economic meltdown.(VIDEOS & DVD-ROMS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Sep 01, 2009; ... MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION/57 MINUTES/2008 This rapid-response video resource was released just months after the Wall Street bailout. Considering the fact that most mainstream news outlets limit economic debate to coverage of reformist solutions and the scapegoating of "bad ...
Class Dismissed: how TV Frames the Working Class.(VIDEOS & DVD-ROMS)(Video recording review)
Sep 01, 2009; ... MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION/62 MINUTES/2005 Throughout history, there have been many social taboos in American culture. Subjects such as religion, sexual orientation, and politics have all had their fair share of enforced public silence. However, to this day, the concept of class ...
Consuming kids: the commercialization of childhood.(VIDEOS & DVD-ROMS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Sep 01, 2009; ... MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION/67 MINUTES/2008 This documentary contends that the deregulation of advertising to children has spawned a marketing push bent on turning kids into mini-consumers. Terms like the "nag factor" or ads where cartoon characters promote anything from junk ...
