At the Founding Summit of ACME in 2002, Dr Sut Jhally declared, “Media literacy is so dangerous to media corporations that they have moved to hijack the movement as it builds momentum.” Owners of media corporations know that critiques about the way screen-entertainers and marketers take advantage of children are legitimate. They also know that…
Fight for the Light! A response to the film Shadows of Liberty Rob Williams I recently had the good fortune to attend a screening of Shadows of Liberty at the Peace and Justice Center (PJC) in Burlington, Vermont. This new documentary film, featuring some of the world’s foremost media scholars and indie journalists, takes a…
by Sara Voorhees In the famous Town Hall of Paris’ 19th Arrondissement, Jacques Brodeur, ACME Board member, founder of EDUPAX (Quebec), and “Showman Extraordinaire,” in the words of his French colleagues, called to order the first European colloquium on the reduction of screen time, Les Enfants Face aux Ecrans: le Point (Children Before Screens: An…
Jacques Brodeur, ACME board member and founder of Edupax (Quebec), is helping to grow screen-time reduction around the world! Promotion en Français These two articles in French promote Screen-Free Week as an enthusiastic (and educational) approach to screen-time reduction. From France, “10 Days Without Screens” (the “webmag” Ma Famille Zen/My Zen Family): http://www.mafamillezen.com/medias-high-tech/emissions-television-enfants/10-jours-sans-ecrans-le-defi-est-lance/ And from Quebec,…
[book review] Media Literacy Education in Action: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives Edited by Belinha S. De Abreu and Paul Mihailidis Routledge Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-415-65837-9 Reviewed by Rob Williams ACME had the good fortune to participate in the seminal Fairfield University Media Literacy Research Symposium this month, organized by Fairfield University’s Belinha S. De Abreu…
Time without screens is essential for healthy growth and healthy living, not only for children but for people of all ages. Too often, it seems that we, as a society, have accepted that we can’t live without them—we organize meetings using screens; we’re even publicizing and organizing Screen-Free Week using screens. But there’s a difference—a…
Welcome to the 21st century. A century in which we need Smart Media Education, funded and operated independently of state and corporate interests, #morethanever. Big Picture? We not only live in the most mediated society in world history, but the world’s most “connected.” “The Machine Is Us,” as KSU digital anthropology professor Michael Wesch explains…
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