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 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 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…
[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:…
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