We hope you will join us on April 27 for an evening discussion of the film Coded Bias. Shalina Kantayya’s documentary explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her subsequent push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S.…
Educators! Learn how to help your students flex their critical media literacy muscles! Check out this webinar featuring our own Allison Butler and friends of ACME! December 8, 2020, 5 pm CST (6 pm EST/3 pm PST) Project Censored in the Classroom: A Critical Media Literacy Webinar (Zoom link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/92206824586) will provide a practical introduction…
ACME is excited to announce a new conference organized by a large steering committee representing 10 West Coast universities and a regional media literacy activist group. The Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, October 17–18, 2020, at California State University, East Bay, seeks to bring together scholars, activists, students, and educators from North, Central, and South America in order…
The Action Coalition for Media Education is excited to be co-sponsoring the International Critical Media Literacy Conference in Savannah for the second year in a row. Following on last year’s success, the event has been expanded to two full days of workshops, panel presentations, and roundtables. We hope you will join us for ICMLC 2019…
This year, ACME continues its work in partnering in the creation of conferences focusing on critical media literacy. This fall in Rhode Island, media literacy educators will gather for the 2018 Northeast Regional Media Literacy Conference. Three national partners are joining with the conference to organize and to provide opening and closing interactive, multimodal presentations:…
by Bill Yousman, Ph.D. Fake news! The accusations are flying from both left and right. Liberals decry social media stories that led people to believe the most absurd lies about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign season. Meanwhile, President Trump and his staff and supporters use the term like a weapon against any news outlet…
by Susan X Jane It starts with a hashtag. Just a name, a stranger’s name and nothing else. You know instantly what it is—it’s another victim of police brutality, of Islamophobia, of misogynoir. Sometimes the hashtag is accompanied by a request—say their name, perhaps join a protest—or a petition. If you want to know details,…
by Rob Williams The Action Coalition for Media Education’s leadership and network turned out in force for the revival of the one-day Northeast Media Literacy Conference (#NMLC) at Central Connecticut State University on February 4. Dr. Lori Bindig Yousman, ACME secretary and founder of Sacred Heart University’s Media Literacy and Digital Culture (MLDC) graduate program,…
by Jacques Brodeur The state government of Vendée, France, has invited Edupax, long-time partner of ACME, to come to its schools and try to convince adolescents to cut recreational screen-time exposure drastically. Beginning in March and continuing through May, Jacques Brodeur will organize and lead events in twelve high schools that have agreed to join in…
by Bill Yousman Among my friends and colleagues who do media studies and media activism there is a split on how to think about the newfound attention to so-called “fake news.” This reminds me of debates about subliminal advertising years ago. Some insisted that it was real and pervasive; others pointed to empirical studies that…
by Julie Frechette On November 4 and 5, educators and activists gathered in the beautiful and historic city of Rome for the annual Media Education Summit sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). Held at John Cabot University, the conference sessions addressed the importance and need for research in media literacy from…
by Ben Boyington At Project Censored’s 40th birthday summit in late October, more than 250 activists and educators gathered at Sonoma State University in Northern California to celebrate media freedom and media literacy education. In 14 discussion panels and numerous impromptu meetings, attendees gathered for collaborative discussion and to build plans for action. ACME was…
November 20 marks the day on which the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. In 2016, the Convention celebrated its 27th anniversary with Universal Children’s Day, a “day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the children of…
[The Global Critical Media Literacy Project is a collaborative initiative from the Action Coalition for Media Education, Project Censored, and the graduate program in Media Literacy and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University.] MEDIA LITERACY WEEK 2016 This year marks the second annual Media Literacy Week, October 31–November 4. The timing could not be better:…
Check out this scathing critique of the corporate media’s role in the current presidential election, from our friends and partners at the Global Critical Media Literacy Project. Great work from college students and veteran teacher-activists working together! This is what Project Censored and GCMLP are all about. And remember, we are one week away from…
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