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CELLING YOUR SOUL

Directed by Joni Siani

An examination of our love/hate relationships with our digital devices from the first digitally socialized generation, and what we can do about it.

In one short decade, we have totally changed the way we interact with one another. The millennial generation, the first to be socialized in a digital world, is now feeling the unintended consequences.

CELLING YOUR SOUL is a powerful and informative examination of how our young people actually feel about connecting in the digital world and their love/hate relationship with technology. It provides empowering strategies for more fulfilling, balanced, and authentic human interaction within the digital landscape.

The film reveals the effects of "digital socialization" by taking viewers on a personal journey with a group of high school and college students who through a digital cleanse discover the power of authentic human connectivity, and that there is "No App" or piece of technology that can ever replace the benefits of human connection.


DVD / 2017 / (Grades 6-12, College, Adult) / 48 minutes

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CONSTRUCTING THE TERRORIST THREAT: ISLAMOPHOBIA, THE MEDIA & THE WAR ON TERROR

Directed by Sut Jhally

Deepa Kumar, one of the nation's foremost scholars on Islamophobia, looks at how Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by white extremists have far outnumbered attacks by Muslim Americans since 9/11.

Arguing that racialized threats have long been used to induce moral panics and advance anti-democratic policies, Kumar explores how ruling elites have been raising the specter of Arab and Islamic terror since the 1970s to justify militarism, war, and curbs on civil liberties. From the Iran-Hostage Crisis in 1979 to the "war on terror" after 9/11 to the rise of ISIS today, she argues that Americans have been taught to fear Muslims out of all proportion to reality, presenting a wealth of eye-opening data about the actual threat level posed by Muslim terrorists in the United States.

Constructing the Terrorist Threat offers a clear-headed assessment of terrorism that couldn't be more timely and urgent given the politics of fear that now dominate our political landscape.


DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2017 / 55 minutes

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION: APPLIED MEDIA AESTHETICS

With Herb Zettl

One of the more recent aspects of mass communication is a focus on visual communication. Using interviews with four of the foundational scholars, this series offers those who study and teach visual communication, a more humanized, personalized approach to understanding theorists and their work. Each program features one-on-one interviews with founding scholars in the visual communication field focusing on their background (how they got into the field), their contribution, their critics and their future work. Each scholar addresses visual communication from a different perspective.

Features a one-on-one interview with Herb Zettl, a founding scholar in the visual communication field focusing on his background (how he got into the field), his contribution, his critics and his future work. Zettl addresses and provides insight into visual communication from his own perspective.


DVD / 2017 / 25 minutes

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION: IMAGES OF ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA

With Paul Messaris

One of the more recent aspects of mass communication is a focus on visual communication. Using interviews with four of the foundational scholars, this series offers those who study and teach visual communication, a more humanized, personalized approach to understanding theorists and their work. Each program features one-on-one interviews with founding scholars in the visual communication field focusing on their background (how they got into the field), their contribution, their critics and their future work. Each scholar addresses visual communication from a different perspective.

Features a one-on-one interview with Paul Messaris, a founding scholar in the visual communication field focusing on his background (how he got into the field), his contribution, his critics and his future work. Messaris addresses and provides insight into visual communication from his own perspective.


DVD / 2017 / 25 minutes

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION: MEDIA ETHICS AND JOURNALISM

With Paul Martin Lester

One of the more recent aspects of mass communication is a focus on visual communication. Using interviews with four of the foundational scholars, this series offers those who study and teach visual communication, a more humanized, personalized approach to understanding theorists and their work. Each program features one-on-one interviews with founding scholars in the visual communication field focusing on their background (how they got into the field), their contribution, their critics and their future work. Each scholar addresses visual communication from a different perspective.

Features a one-on-one interview with Paul Martin Lester, a founding scholar in the visual communication field focusing on his background (how he got into the field), his contribution, his critics and his future work. Lester addresses and provides insight into visual communication from his own perspective.


DVD / 2017 / 25 minutes

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION: VISUAL ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

With Robert Tiemens

One of the more recent aspects of mass communication is a focus on visual communication. Using interviews with four of the foundational scholars, this series offers those who study and teach visual communication, a more humanized, personalized approach to understanding theorists and their work. Each program features one-on-one interviews with founding scholars in the visual communication field focusing on their background (how they got into the field), their contribution, their critics and their future work. Each scholar addresses visual communication from a different perspective.

Features a one-on-one interview with Robert Tiemens, a founding scholar in the visual communication field focusing on his background (how he got into the field), his contribution, his critics and his future work. Tiemens addresses and provides insight into visual communication from his own perspective.


DVD / 2017 / 20 minutes

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DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS: DOS AND DON'TS

From texting to email to video calls, digital technology has transformed how we communicate with each other. But in formal situations like at work or in school, which forms of communications are appropriate, and when? Viewers of this video, especially digital natives, may be surprised to discover that communicating isn't just about sharing information-it's creating it-and that the ways in which emails, texts or voice messages are composed and conveyed may make the difference in impressing or disappointing an employer or co-worker. Even for late adopters of digital technology, this video has important points on what you should do-and what you don't want to do-when it comes to email, texting, video-conferencing and using the phone for business calls or voice mail.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2015 / 29 minutes

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PROJECT Z

Directed by Phillip Gara

An investigation into how war games, worst-case scenarios, complex systems, and networked media produce the very crises they seek to model, predict and report.

As the Cold War ends, a professor goes in search of an America without an enemy. Armed with a Hi8 video camera and inspired by the detective work of Walter Benjamin, he heads deep into the inner circles of the defense, entertainment and media industries, where he discovers a worst-case future being built from war games, video games, and language games.

Some thirty years later, a group of student filmmakers find the videotapes in a filing cabinet, along with a stack of old newspaper clippings, audio interviews and photographs. With the help of friends from the Global Media Project, the filmmaker produces an experimental documentary that goes back to the future, where they find the original maps for a new world order. An unexpected warning is found on the outermost edges of the maps: "Beware of Zombies!"

The result is PROJECT Z, a film that updates another warning, issued by President Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address, about the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" and the consequences should "public policy be captured by a scientific and technological elite".

Combining rare footage from inside the war machine with corrosive commentary by leading critics of global violence, injustice, and inequality, the film challenges the living to write their own future before the walking dead conjure the final global event.


DVD / 2015 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 74 minutes

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TV FAMILY: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FIRST REALITY TELEVISION PROGRAM

In 1960, NBC aired what some consider to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt of Father Knows Best fame, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it was called Story of a Family, and it purported to document the day-to-day lives of the 10-member Robertson family of Amarillo, Texas. While the show has since faded from public memory, media scholars and television historians now recognize its significance as a precursor to the unscripted television programming that dominates American television today. In TV Family, filmmaker Ethan Thompson draws on the recollections of several of the children featured in the show to offer a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Story of a Family. Weaving personal anecdotes from the Robertsons with commentary from TV historians and cultural critics, Thompson tells the story of how the show's producers carefully choreographed the way they wanted the family to appear to the American public -- all in the name of authenticity. The result is an eye-opening look at one of the television industry's earliest attempts to shape the "reality" of family life in commercially viable ways. Ideal for courses that look at media culture, commercial television, communication, documentary, and television history.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 56 minutes

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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING IN THE DIGITAL ERA

In the new world of tweets, blogs, and citizen journalism, what is the outlook for true investigative reporting? This program highlights the ways investigative journalism is changing, particularly in the context of digital and online media. Social media and globalization have changed the ways reporters connect with their readers. What are the advantages and disadvantages of nearly instantaneous access to news as it unfolds? A panel of heavy hitters from the world of journalism weighs in on these and other issues, such as emerging financial models for (costly) investigative reporting as traditional news budgets shrink. Young reporters entering the field will be particularly encouraged by many of the exciting technologies and resources available for developing stories that are more in-depth, media-rich, and engaging. Investigative journalism is a fast-evolving field, and this program helps entry-level reporters as well as veterans to bear witness more effectively in the Internet era.

DVD / 2014 / 17 minutes

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JOURNALISM SECRETS TO SOCIAL MEDIA STORYTELLING & NEWS REPORTING

Social media tools are being used across all media sources including traditional news outlets and online-based resources. This program focuses on the variety of ways social media is essential to storytelling and news distribution. Each chapter highlights an element of social media used by top journalists who rely on these communication channels to both research stories and broaden their audience. Its designed to help students and educators understand the growing role of social media in the gathering and dissemination of news and the many ways to make the most of this technology.

Social media has changed how we gather and report news in general. Its a crucial tool in reporting today since we receive many tips and reach many sources to confirm information even before the story ever makes mainstream media. This is more often the case especially when breaking news happens. Its important for students to use social media to gain and disseminate information and to research each topic thoroughly, read as much as they can and be familiar with every side of the issue.

We will teach students how to humanize the issues so they are not just talking about statistics or numbers. How to use Storify, Tumblr, Buzzfeed, Opensecrets.org and different websites like Mashables - that have interesting information and ways for students to get out and tell stories using audio, video and pictures. How to ensure the information they obtain is vetted and accurate and ensure the story is valuable or newsworthy. How to get as many aspects of a story as they can and how to make it different from similar stories out there to help inform their audience.

We will show students how to use their journalism skills and apply them to this new medium and above and beyond, how to capture the absolute essence in a paragraph - confirm it, attribute it and source it.

Subjects covered include: Using Social Media in Politics, Putting the Public back in Public Affairs, Social Media as a Database, The Day in the Life of an Online Reporter and Behind the Scenes of Storify. Includes a list of links and websites to help students investigate stories and find out more about newsgathering and dissemination practices.


DVD / 2014 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 31 minutes

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SHADOWS OF LIBERTY

Directed by Jean-Philippe Tremblay

Uses shocking examples of cover-ups and censorship by the US media to show how a few mega corporations exercise control over the content of our news.

SHADOWS OF LIBERTY examines how the US media are controlled by a handful of corporations exercising extraordinary political, social, and economic power. Having always allowed broadcasting to be controlled by commercial interests, the loosening of media ownership regulations, that began under Reagan and continued under Clinton, has led to the current situation where five mega corporations control the vast majority of the media in the United States. These companies not only don't prioritize investigative journalism, but can and do clamp down on it when their interests are threatened.

The film begins with three journalists whose careers were destroyed because of the stories they broke: Roberta Baskin, whose scoop about Nike sweatshops didn't sit well with CBS when Nike became a co-sponsor of the Olympics; Kristina Borjesson, another CBS reporter, whose job lasted precisely one week after the network spiked her investigation into the TWA Flight 800 disaster in 1996; and Gary Webb, whose story linking US support for Nicaraguan Contras and the epidemic in crack cocaine was trashed by The New York Times and the Washington Post. (His story was true, but Webb lost his job and eventually killed himself.)

With the help of interviewees including Daniel Ellsburg, Dan Rather, Julian Assange, Chris Hedges, Dick Gregory, Robert McChesney, John Nichols and Amy Goodman, the film explores in depth the monopolies and vested interests that filter the dissemination of information thus damaging the democratic process. One notorious example, featured in the film, of the anti-democratic nexus between the military-industrial complex and the news media was the latter's unquestioning acceptance of the former's trumped up justification for the Iraq War.

With profits taking priority over the truth and the powerful being taken at their word rather than taken to task, the film asks whether the Internet can withstand corporate pressure and remain free, or will it too fall into the hands of monopolistic corporations.

Ultimately has our commercial world caused us to lose one of the most precious commodities of all--unbiased information?


DVD / 2012 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 93 minutes

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LATINOS BEYOND REEL: CHALLENGING A MEDIA STEREOTYPE

Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and among the most diverse -- accounting for one-sixth of all Americans and tracing their origins to more than 20 countries. They are also a rising force in American politics. Yet across the American media landscape, from the broadcast airwaves to cable television and Hollywood film, the reality and richness of the Latino experience are virtually nowhere to be found.

In Latinos Beyond Reel, filmmakers Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun examine how US news and entertainment media portray -- and do not portray -- Latinos. Drawing on the insights of Latino scholars, journalists, community leaders, actors, directors, and producers, they uncover a pattern of gross misrepresentation and gross under-representation -- a world in which Latinos tend to appear, if at all, as gangsters and Mexican bandits, harlots and prostitutes, drug dealers and welfare-leeching illegals.

The film challenges viewers to think critically about the wide-ranging effects of these media stereotypes, and to envision alternative representations and models of production more capable of capturing the humanity and diversity of real Latinos. Features commentary from Charles Berg, Otto Santa Ana, Angharad Valdivia, Federico Subervi, Mari Castaneda, Chon Noriega, Isabel Molina, Alex Nogales, Juan Gonzalez, Moctesuma Esparza, Josefina Lopez, Alex Rivera, Luis Ramos, Lisa Vidal, and others.


DVD (With English, Spanish Subtitles) / 2011 / 84 minutes

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RETURNING FIRE: INTERVENTIONS IN VIDEO GAME CULTURE

Video games like Modern Warfare, America's Army, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield are part of an exploding market of war games whose revenues now far outpace even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. The sophistication of these games is undeniable, offering users a stunningly realistic experience of ground combat and a glimpse into the increasingly virtual world of long-distance, push-button warfare. Far less clear, though, is what these games are doing to users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war. For the culture-jamming activists featured in this film, these uncertainties were a call to action. In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2011 / 44 minutes

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VALENTINO'S GHOST (NEW EDITION)

Directed by Michael Singh

Shows the way in which the changing image of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media has mirrored America's political agenda in the Middle East.

Valentino's Ghost takes viewers on a chronological journey through more than a century of images of Muslims, Arabs and Islam in the U.S. media, from the early 20th-century fantasies of romantic sheiks to today's damaging stereotypes as evil fanatics. Through interviews with Robert Fisk, Niall Ferguson, and John Mearsheimer amongst others, the film shows the way in which the changing image of Arabs and Muslims has mirrored America's political agenda in the Middle East.

Valentino's Ghost aims to sharpen viewers' media literacy and increase their skills in questioning media representations, especially those of minority groups and people with whom our government is in conflict. The film ends with a report of a few Hollywood films that have provided complex images and avoided ethnic stereotyping.


DVD / 2011 / (Grades 8-12, College, Adult) / 93 minutes

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BARBERSHOP PUNK: NET NEUTRALITY, MEDIA CONSOLIDATION AND YOU

Directed by Georgia Sugimura Archer

A David & Goliath tale of one man's fight against restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on consumers' access to the internet.

Robb Topolski is an unlikely crusader for free speech -- on the surface; he seems to be a mild-mannered geek with a fondness for a capella music. However, when Topolski tried to upload some rare recordings of barbershop quartets to a peer-to-peer file sharing website in 2007, he found that his broadband Internet connection slowed down to a tiny fraction of its usual speed.

Topolski, who worked as a computer network engineer, ran some tests to find out what was happening and made a surprising discovery -- his internet service provider was monitoring the web use of its customers and using software to slow connections for certain activities and certain websites. Topolski took his ISP to court and has become a passionate spokesman for net neutrality, believing that ISP's have no right to interfere with what their customers are doing and should not be watching their activities on line.

This case is one of the key inspirations behind the documentary BARBERSHOP PUNK, which explores how a small number of powerful corporations have the power to control the World Wide Web, and what ordinary people can do to promote the free exchange of information in cyberspace.

Featuring interviews with Ian MacKaye, Janeane Garofalo, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Henry Rollins, Mike McCurry, John Perry Barlow, Jonathan Adelstein and many more.


DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 77 minutes

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MEAN WORLD SYNDROME, THE: MEDIA VIOLENCE & THE CULTIVATION OF FEAR

Featuring George Gerbner and Michael Morgan

From anxieties about crime and terrorism to trepidation about expanding government power and illegal immigration, large swatches of the American population seem to be living in a state of perpetual fear. Yet across the board, on issue after issue, studies have repeatedly shown that the very things that scare Americans the most have little to no basis in fact.

What accounts for this widening gap between perception and reality?

The Mean World Syndrome, based on the groundbreaking work of the late media scholar George Gerbner, offers a timely and clear-eyed take on the origins of some of our most irrational and unrelenting fears. Taking dead aim at a commercial media system that thrives on violence, stereotypes, and the cultivation of anxiety, the film argues that the more television people watch, the more likely they are to be insecure and afraid of others -- and shows how these media-induced fears and anxieties provide fertile ground for intolerance, extremism, and a paranoid style of politics that threatens basic democratic values. The result is a fascinating and accessible introduction to debates about media violence and media effects, and a powerful classroom tool for helping students make sense of our increasingly intense and fractious political climate. Features commentary from George Gerbner, and narration from University of Massachusetts Communication professor Michael Morgan.


DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2010 / 51 minutes

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WAR YOU DON'T SEE, THE

Directed by John Pilger

John Pilger's powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war.

John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war. The War You Don't See traces the history of `embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an `electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today?


DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 96 minutes

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MEDIA RESEARCHERS: CULTURAL STUDIES & THE SCHOLARSHIP OF JOURNALISM

By Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe
With James W. Carey

James W. Carey, cultural historian, communication scholar, theorist, writer and teacher of journalists, discusses Cultural Studies and the scholarship of journalism.


DVD / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 19 minutes

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MEDIA RESEARCHERS: DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

By Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe
With Everett M. Rogers

Everett M. Rogers, communication scholar, theorist, writer, and teacher discusses his research in the field of development communication, diffusion of innovations and communication technology.


DVD / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 48 minutes

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MEDIA RESEARCHERS: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION & MASS COMMUNICATION

By Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe
With Steven H. Chaffee

Steven H. Chaffee, communication scholar, theorist, historian, methodologist, and teacher, discusses his work in political communication and mass communication effects research.


DVD / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 23 minutes

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MEDIA RESEARCHERS: VIOLENCE & TELEVISION

By Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe
With George Gerbner

George Gerbner, communication scholar, theorist, teacher, poet, and the founder of cultivation theory, discusses his work which influenced four decades of research on violence and television.


DVD / 2008 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 25 minutes

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RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA

Although demeaning and offensive racial stereotypes were pervasive in popular media of every kind during the 20th century, most observers would agree that the media is much more sensitive to representations of race today. But the pernicious effects of that stereotyping live on in the new racism arising from disparities in the treatment of stories involving whites and people of color in a ratings -driven news market, media -enhanced isolationism as a result of narrowcasting, and other sources. This program examines the relationship between mass media and social constructions of race from political and economic perspectives while looking at the effects media can have on audiences.

DVD / 2008 / 42 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING MEDIA LITERACY

TV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos, and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do they grab the attention? What are they selling - a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology? - and why? Would a different media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises more questions than it answers, which is the whole point: to prompt students to question, question, question the messages they are bombarded with daily. Savvy media consumers aren't born; they're made, and this program is an excellent tool for shaping the classroom dialogue.

DVD / 2007 / 35 minutes

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WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION IN THE MEDIA: CONTENT, CAREERS AND CRITICISM

"Women and Media" is a fast moving program with visuals of past and present media and interviews with Dr. Maurine Beasley, Sheila Gibbons and Junior Bridge, all foundational scholars in the field of women and media. The program focuses on four areas: the reclaimed history of women who created media, the media portrayal of women, women's inclusion in the media workforce and how men perceive media differently than women which affects what we read, see and hear from the media. "Women and Media" is a perfect introduction to Women, Minorities and Media Courses or a section on media in a Women's studies course.

DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 45 minutes

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MEDIA LITERACY: CREATING MEDIA

Most students have little experience creating media and assume creating media is an easy process. For newspapers, you collect some information, write a story, type it out and lay it out. With a computer, how hard can that be? Part of the intrigue of media creation is it looks so easy. This program takes students on location to a behind-the-scenes look at a radio station, television news show, a regional newspaper and a national on-line newspaper to see how media is created in a top media market.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 16 minutes

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MEDIA LITERACY: ETHICS

This program focuses on those who work as media professionals whether they are public relations specialists, journalists, photojournalists, advertising executives, newspaper editors or camera operators. In the media it's not just about what we say but what we show and how we show it. Visuals, whether they are video, photos, or how we put together photos and words, often have more impact and more credibility than words alone. This program includes interviews with journalists from the Washington Post and USA Today.com who talk about ethical standards at both print and on-line newspapers.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 31 minutes

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MEDIA LITERACY: THE AUDIENCE

Most people think of "audience" as those who watch television, listen to the radio, read a magazine or newspaper or surf the web but "media are businesses." In the same way a hardware store sells nuts and bolts, the media sell product - YOU " the audience. Guaranteeing an audience to advertisers is what the media do and it has to be the "right" audience - those with money to spend on the advertised product or products. This program examines the concepts of demographics, psychographics, how ratings affect media, targeting and on-line advertising.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 24 minutes

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COMMUNICATION IS POWER: MASS MEDIA & MASS PERSUASION

Examines advertising as a prelude to understanding the forms of mass persuasion. Investigates violence in the media and studies the history of persuasion in newspapers and magazines. Also examines the growing influence of electronic media in politics and dramatizes the controversial issues of political advertising and news management.

DVD / 60 minutes

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MEDIA LITERACY: GET THE NEWS?

Many teens are more interested in the news now than they ever were before 9-11, but too many others are turning off the news due to information overload, cynicism and fears. This program explores how news coverage on TV, on the Internet and in print affects the way teens are coping with their changed world. It also helps them understand how to select, compare and interpret what they see and read in the news. In their search for answers, In the Mix teen reporters interview FOX News' Bill O'Reilly; ABC's Peter Jennings; Barry Gross, chief copy editor of the New York Post; CNN's and MTV's young reporter, Serena Altschul; Janine Jackson, the program coordinator of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).

DVD (With Discussion Guide) / (Grades 6-12, College) / 30 minutes

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MEDIA LITERACY: TV - WHAT YOU DON'T SEE!

By the time the average student graduates from high school he or she will have watched 15,000 hours of television and been hit by approximately 70,000 marketing messages a day. In the Mix reveals the tricks and techniques used by the media to manipulate audiences. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at how news stories are chosen and covered along with some personal insights from veteran newsman Peter Jennings. Then we focus a keen eye on the powerful images used in advertising and music videos to learn ways to analyze and evaluate what you see on TV and whether or not to believe it.

DVD (With Discussion Guide) / (Grades 6-12, College) / 30 minutes

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