Surf these sites: About-Face! -- About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society. Casandre Cohn - Essay -- An in-class essay on Media Violence asking the question: Does Media cause violence in our society? Center For Media Education -- The Center for Media Education (CME) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of the electronic media, especially for families. Child Safety on the Information Highway. -- An increasing number of schools are going online and, in many homes, children are logging on to commercial services, private bulletin boards, and the Internet. As a parent you need to understand the nature of these systems. Source: 4j School District. Eugene, Oregon. Children and TV Violence -- Reviews studies on the affect of TV violence on children. Children''s Understanding of What is Real, on Television -- Nobody teaches children how to assess the reality status of television programmes, yet they learn to apply multiple criteria based upon their growing knowledge of both the medium and the everyday world in order to make increasingly sophisticated judgements about what is real, on television. Facts About Media Violence and Effects on the American Family -- Baby Bag® Online: Research data tracking television viewing habits and behavior patterns, population/homicide rate data, cartoon violence, video games, internet, music, lyrics and potential adverse effects of excessive exposure to media. Fighting Media Violence -- An article from Families.Com on combatting media violence in the home. Influence of Rock Music and Videos on young People -- Nobody teaches children how to assess the reality status of television programmes, yet they learn to apply multiple criteria based upon their growing knowledge of both the medium and the everyday world in order to make increasingly sophisticated judgements about what is real, on television. Source: Centre for Adolescent Health. Media Awareness Network -- Offering practical support for media education in the home, school and community and provides information and "food for thought" on the media culture. Media Violence and Media Literacy -- An article from the American Academy of Pediatrics: Some Things You Should Know About Media Violence and Media Literacy. Media Watch -- Information at this site about membership in MediaWatch, using the media effectively to promote issues of interest, talking to children about violence and sexism in the media, and a wealth of other useful resources. MediaForum (Formerly MediaNet) -- The site includes the research, policy and opinion documents to inform users about social, economic and policy factors around media''s influence in the lives of children and families. Ten Things Wrong With the Media ''Effects'' Model -- Chapter of a book, written by Dr David Gauntlett of the University of Leeds, criticising studies of media effects. [Legally reproduced on the Web by the author]. The media theory site -- Materials about the mass media and its relationship to people''s identities, gender, sexuality and behaviour. The American Coalition for Violent Media -- An organization devoted to the protection of violent and controversial media. The Hidden Hand of Violence {Freedom Magazine} -- The divergent scenes in society’s seemingly random patchwork quilt of senseless youth violence contain a common thread. Violence In The Media -- A Personal media violence page, dedicated to bringing together various resources which can be used to study media violence. Violence In The Media (Community Learning Network) -- This CLN menu page provides links to Media Studies curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of violence in the media Violence and the Media -- One of the most debated issues in relation to media awareness, particularly as it relates to concerns about children, is the prevalence of violence in the media. Violence in the Media: "Are Children in Trouble?" -- This site hopes to show people both sides as cleaerly as possible and make an intellegent decision based on what they find with personal experience and/or other sources. Violence is the Hidden Icon of the Internet -- In order to stave off the execution of our individual selves, the progressive whittling-away of our identities under the influence of unbridled technology at the curtain-call of this century (and indeed of this millennium,) we turn to the Internet. Source: Project McLuhan Violence, Public Health, and the Media -- Topics: The Problem of Violence, Media and the Social Agenda, From Public Opinion to Public Judgment, Understanding the Problem, The Search for Solutions, The Media as Part of the Solution, Conclusion, and Endnotes. Source: Margaret Gerteis,Annenberg Washington Program
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