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 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…
[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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