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 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…
Statement on Media Literacy Week from The Global Critical Media Literacy Project (The Action Coalition for Media Education, Project Censored, and the graduate program in Media Literacy and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University) November 2–6, 2015, is Media Literacy Week in the United States and Canada. Across both nations, multiple campaigns will highlight the…
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…
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…
Smart Media Education for the 21st Century 