In early January I found out I was pregnant. My husband and I were thrilled and excited about the pregnancy. However, after my first visit to the doctor I soon realized I was using the skills I [...]
Using Beyoncé’s Formation video and Superbowl performance to support critical thinking and media literacy -Neil Andersen and Michelle Solomon Beyoncé dropped Formation, a new video and song, the [...]
How might this repugnant misogynist statement connect with the ice bucket challenge? CityTV reporter Shauna Hunt confronted a group of soccer fans who were planning to shout ‘F*ck Her Right In [...]
Produced by Dissolve, a stock footage company, to promote its catalog of video clips, this video can be read differently by different audiences. The company sells its clips to promotional firms [...]
It is very curious that, with all the sturm und drang that accompanied the long-overdue release of Ontario’s Sex Education/Health Curriculum, no one acknowledged the elephants in the room. [...]
Canadaland If there is a must-read, must-see, must-hear experience for Canadians seeking to develop their media literacy, it is the Canadaland Podcast. Jesse Brown, veteran of the CBC, Saturday [...]
cbc.ca What a wonderful, complex and compelling media literacy case study the Jian Ghomeshi story is becoming! Is the story about tolerance of sexual deviance? Yes! Male privilege? Yes! [...]
The following article by Lewis Lapham is clearly an opinion piece, a guest column, yet appeared on the front page, which has been traditionally reserved for hard news. Students might debate its [...]
Purpose: To have students understand that the world around them can be read as a media text, and therefore interpreted as such; and to encourage critical literacy in that reading/interpretation. [...]