Bazsites.com Media Literacy
Directory Topics
On the Web
- Media Literacy Online Project - Biannual online publication focusing on media literacy and the influence of media in the lives of children and youth.
- Center for Media Literacy - National advocate for media literacy education. Develops and distributes books, videos, teaching materials and other programs that promote critical thinking about the media.
- The Media Awareness Network - A bilingual, Canadian educational web site containing a wide range of copy-right cleared resources to help teachers integrate media literacy and web literacy into their classrooms.
- New Mexico Media Literacy Project - Offers training and materials in support of media literacy. Group's mission is to cultivate critical thinking and activism in media culture.
- Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart - A media literacy Web site for young people that encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers. Activities on the site are designed to provide some of the skills and knowledge needed to question, analyze, interpret and evaluate media messages.
- Media Education Foundation - A nonprofit organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy.
- Just Think Foundation - A media literacy organization for teachers, parents, and children teaching basic, visual, and technological literacy and encouraging young people to think critically.
- Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY) - A not-for-profit sponsorship of media literacy among youth. A scholarly yet practical experimentation with the ways in which all communication technologies can and do shape the education of youth.
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Critical Media Literacy in Times of War - Engages users in critical examination of how the media covers US foreign policy focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Center for Media Literacy - Promotes media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media content.
Wikipedia Articles
- Media literacy - Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see and read.
- Information and media literacy - Information and media literacy (IML) is as important as traditional reading and writing. Today’s students need to be information literate and media literate.
- Mediacy - Mediacy is a term that is being circulated in education circles that extends from Literacy and Numeracy as the facility to work with words and numbers to Mediacy which is a facility in working with media. As we become a much more interlinked, interconnected, and interdependent collection of media consuming individuals we also have the opportunity to be contributors to that gropwing body of media.
- Electracy - Electracy describes the kind of “literacy” or skill and facility necessary to exploit the full communicative potential of new electronic media such as multimedia, hypermedia, social software, and virtual worlds. According to theorist Gregory Ulmer, electracy “is to digital media what literacy is to print.
- Sindhi language media in Pakistan - Sindh, the second largest province in Pakistan, is a province of many distinctions. It is the most urbanized province with 43% of people living in urban areas, and is the province with the highest literacy rate.