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Mind over matter: modern media literacy.
Sep 01, 2009; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...