Tag: influence of the media
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 […]
Critical Media Literacy Issue: Media consumption in kids is exploding with mental repercussions for your children. Especially for these key groups.
Commonsensemedia.org reports large increases in media use among children without an increase in comparable media literacy skills. With new devices like tablets, phones and multi-use gaming devices, children can now […]
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 […]
Are media companies worried about the effects of media consolidation? This video (and its mysterious disappearance could be telling.
In my upcoming book Does The News Make Me Look Fat? , I talk about how media consumption works like food consumption. In this model, there are people that gather, […]