Media literacy: How ingredients inside media content wage war on your rational thinking.

Chocolate cake.  Fattening. Lots of sugar. You know, it will destroy your diet. You know why it will. Yet, there it is (or what’s left of it) sitting on your […]

Are teachers to blame for leaving us media and message illiterate?

Why teachers may have accidentally made us devalue and more vulnerable to the power of words used in media. You know why I rarely forgot to bring my gym shorts […]

Petunia. How a children’s book illustrates the difference between gaining knowledge from media or just an identity.

I read this book in first grade. Petunia. A book by Roger Duvoisin about a goose named Petunia who finds an book. She never reads it, but always carries it […]

The ghost of the music industry past has a warning for books and authors.

In less than five years, traditional books may be dead as a primary and sustainable way for many established authors to make a living. As people are rapidly getting used […]