Mediacy Articles

Film and Video

• Avalon & Radio Days
• Analyzing Oscar: Deconstructing the Academy Awards
• Movies on Media
• ZOOM Throws the Spotlight on Student Film: A Report on a Student-organised Film Festival in Toronto

General

• Culture in Commotion: Probes and Provocations 2001
• The Language of Media Literacy: A Glossary of Terms
• An AML Interview with Len Masterman
• Trans-National Media Corporations: What They Own and How Much They Earn
• Congratulations to AML's Neil Andersen, recipient of the Jessie McAnse Award

Media Education

• The Politics of Media Education
• The Media Teacher and Ties to Business
• Commercialism and Media Education: Where do we draw the line?
• Assessing Students' Media Work
• Excerpts from Media Analysis: Performance in Media in Western Australian Government Schools 1991
• 18 Principles of Media Education
• Media Literacy Educational Outcomes

Music

• Turning the Amp to 10: Music in the Media Studies Classroom
• Good Vibrations: Positive Approaches to Teaching Popular Music

New Technologies

• Computers Won't Replace Teachers in the Classroom
• Interactive Television: Information Highway or Hypeway?
• Why Teachers Fear the Internet: Many teachers must learn to see the Internet as an ally rather than a threat

Popular Culture

• A Touch of Skepticism is Critical: Whatever Happened to the 60s?
• Culture Jamming: Information War of the 90's
• A Holiday Menage à Trois in Popular Culture: Barbie, Ken & G.I. Joe
• Mad Magazine: A Media Literacy Primer for the Boomer Generation
• About Mad Magazine: Quotes and Opinions
• Scanning Television Videotapes
• Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture

Television

• Cable Television's Windows on the World
• American vs. Canadian TV Families: The Way We Would Like it to Be
• Point: Let's Focus on the Positive Aspects of Television in the Classroom
• Counterpoint: Simplistic notions of the impact of television do not serve the cause of media literacy

Violence

• Insidious 'Fun': Youth Need Help to Process Messages of Sex and Violence
• Rambo Revisited