"This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his 20 years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at bo
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th the problems and possibilities of this model of media education. Responding to our national concern about adolescents, literacy, media, and violence, Teaching Youth Media: describes the changes schools and after-school programs need to make in order to create a media education that empowers students to change their world; explores the intersection of literacy and culture as youth learn to analyze information from a variety of sources, including television, newspapers, books, films, school, church, and their lives outside of school; features case studies of students and teachers engaged in making video documentaries at EVC and in an alternative high school; illuminates the practical day-to-day challenges faced by professional developers and teachers working to change the way education is practiced in their classes and schools; looks at the profound "disconnect" that results when teachers and curriculum fail to recognize the social and cultural contexts in which urban students live; explores the critical thinking and technical video arts skills students develop as they learn collaboratively to conduct interviews, research, shoot, log, and edit their documentaries." (Publisher description)
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"This manual is designed to be a comprehensive resource for state health departments and other agencies and organizations in developing and implementing tobacco counter-marketing campaigns. It is designed to help readers who have different levels of experience and are managing programs at different
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stages of development [...] The first half of the manual focuses on planning and preparation, and the second half addresses specific counter-marketing techniques. The manual also includes a list of resource organizations, appendices relevant to topics found in individual chapters, and a glossary." (Introduction)
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"This book, containing 17 chapters from health communication scholars both in the U.S. and abroad, is expressly concerned with media-related aspects of AIDS. Whether that media is print, electronic, and/or visual, they lie at the heart of understanding the messages we have, or perhaps have not, rece
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ived about AIDS. This book addresses the invaluable role of communication in terms of HIV/AIDS pandemic." (Publisher description)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"VideoCulture war ein internationales, medienethnographisches Praxis- und Forschungsprojekt, das von 1997 bis 2000 an der PH Ludwigsburg in Kooperation mit Kollegen aus London, Los Angeles, New York, Budapest und Prag durchgeführt wurde. Jugendliche zwischen 14 und 19 Jahren aus unterschiedlichen s
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oziokulturellen Milieus produzierten insgesamt 36 eigene Videofilme. Das Buch dokumentiert das Projekt, und eine begleitende CD-ROM enthält Videofilme und Projektmaterialien." (commbox)
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"The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information
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or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal." (Publisher description)
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"The cases presented in this book are among the first examples of the convergence of radio and new ICTs for development, and the book underscores the significant potential of the combination. In this convergence, radio promises to take on even greater significance and value. For this reason, we beli
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eve that radio is the one to watch." (https://comunica.org/1-2-watch)
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