by Charles Klotzer, Founder and Editor Emeritus, The St. Louis Journalism Review Media literacy is a subversive, even a revolutionary term. It is subversive in its struggle to overthrow the established norms of communication; it seeks to search beyond the surface message. It is revolutionary in its demand that citizens, all citizen, understand what the [...]
Tag Archives: GMLP ML Week Guest Contributors
Posses and Protocols
by Paul Guzzardo, “Digital Creative / Urban Designer”, paulguzzardo1@yahoo.com Make a note. Next July 21st is a Thursday. If you’re in Toronto it will be the place to party. Find yourself in Berlin? Try to make it to the Canadian Embassy. Canada did up a Salon to mark it. Event planners are also busy in [...]
Cyber Bullying – A Perspective
by Karen Aroesty, Exec. Director, Anti-Defamation League, Missouri / Southern Illinois; E-mail: karoesty@adl.org As I write this, the news cycle has moved far away from the antics of an extremist pastor in Gainesville, Florida. Without the attention of journalism and traditional media outlets, the internet and YouTube, blogs, Facebook pages and other social networking systems, [...]
Newspaper Reporter’s Take On Media Literacy
by Phil Sutin, Reporter, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch As the world moves ever so quickly, media literacy helps people better understand the information that bombards them. It is a skill that helps people grasp that information and make better decisions. In the past 20 years, the media has grown from a few structured segments — [...]
Convergent Media Command Expertise(s)
By Gary Hicks, Chairman, Dept. of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville As Chair of a university department that helps train future media professionals, I’m often asked by students (and their parents) what it takes to have a successful media career. My answer is simple. It is also oftentimes unfair. “Be able to do everything,” [...]
Media Literacy and Its Value Through the Eyes of a Student
by Mary Elizabeth DeVelario – Student, John Paul II Preparatory School, mary_di_valerio@yahoo.com In the vastly-changing universe we call the present, technology is boundless. Our world is shape-shifting before our eyes and what is “new” and “fresh” today is old and outdated tomorrow. As students, our society sends us an onslaught of messages each day. Some of these [...]
Where Are Those Simple Fair Use Guidelines?
By Mark Sableman, partner in Thompson Coburn LLP’s St. Louis office, where he practices intellectual property, media and technology law. As a copyright lawyer, I often get asked for “a few simple guidelines” for fair use of copyrighted materials. I’d love to provide such guidelines, but I can’t. I have to explain the subjective nature [...]
The New Revelation
By Rabbi Mark L. Shook, St. Louis Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Temple Israel and winner of St. Louis ’ 2010 Malachi Award for Interfaith Relations and Understanding Getting the word, the message from the Almighty, has been the central idea of Judaism, Christianity and Islam for a few thousand years. Each of these faith traditions promoted [...]
Sucker or Succor?
By Don Marsh, St. Louis Public Radio’s host of St. Louis On the Air, longtime journalist and broadcaster, and GMLP’s 2008 Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Award winner It seems that not only are there fewer and fewer places to go for a balanced information diet these days, but also that there are fewer and fewer [...]
Media Literacy Critical in Today’s Schools
By Dr. John Urkevich, Executive Director, Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis Employers today are stressing the importance of not only being technology savvy, but also media literate. One of the biggest challenges in media literacy is to locate and evaluate information and recognize and understand the source. The ability to clearly focus on [...]
The Role of Media Literacy in Citizenship Education
By Marvin Beckerman, Chair Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH) Advisory Board, University of Missouri-St. Louis It is impossible to have a healthy democracy unless there are healthy, competent, and engaged citizens. Complaints about “spectator” democracy have emerged in past elections. More and more citizens seem to be alienated from the political process. Many Americans seem [...]
Media Literacy: Perspective of a Baby Boomer
By Barbara Turkington, Executive Director, OASIS As I watch TV news shows today, I ponder why I am continuing my family ritual of watching the evening news. Growing up, the six o’clock news is where my family got our facts about the world. We trusted Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and Chet Huntley to give us [...]
Truth or Consequences for Youth in the Cyber Generation
Lynne Lang, GMLP board member and Curriculum Development Manager for BJC School Outreach and Youth Development., 314-286-0504, or E-mail: lynne.lang@bjc.org In a world where we are losing our face-to-face communication, it is becoming more commonplace to confront conflict in writing. Without the dynamic of resolution that occurs when we are together listening and talking to [...]
Media Literacy: Food for Thought, Catalyst for Action
By Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D. Food Sleuth,® LLC…helping people think beyond their plates… Melinda Hemmelgarn is a registered dietitian and “investigative nutritionist,” with 30 years experience in clinical, academic and public health nutrition. She is an award winning “Food Sleuth” newspaper columnist and radio host based in Columbia, MO. She and her husband created the [...]
Honoring Thomas Jefferson’s Vision
by T. Michael McDowell, City Manager–City of Olivette, Missouri, and Member, MY-LOGO Program Advisory Board As the implications of Gateway Media Literacy Partner’s Media Literacy Week are considered, the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson regarding the value of public education take on a new meaning. Even though public education was not widespread during Jefferson’s day; he [...]
Journalism: A Case for Literacy, Justice, Integrity and Fairness
By Al Wiman, Vice President for Public Understanding of Science, Saint Louis Science Center, Office: 314-289-1457 There was a time when you walked into a TV newsroom and it was full of writers, reporter, editors, and assignment desk personnel. A hum of activity that was aimed at the 5 PM, 6 PM or 10 PM [...]
Beyond Belief
by Pier Marton, Sr. Lecturer, Washington University, Film/Media Studies Program, St. Louis © Marton 2010 …the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives… — Tony Judt Everything exerts itself to have you believe that culture is great, that it’s cool, that movies are life, [...]
Media Literacy Also Means Media Numerancy
By Dr. Terry Jones, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Determining public opinion on policy issues and candidate preferences is an important part of the civic dialogue in a democracy. Once the media used person-on-the-street interviews to gauge this dimension, often interesting tidbits but falling well short [...]
A Precedence of Decadence?
By Dan Duncan, Director of Community Services, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NCADA), 314.962.3456 Working in the substance abuse field makes it difficult, if not impossible to not have an acute awareness of the need for media literacy instruction for today’s youth. As the spokesperson for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug [...]
Art and Media Literacy…Inherently Linked!
by Roseann Weiss Director of Community Art Programs & Public Art Initiatives, St. Louis Regional Arts Commission “The purpose of art,” said James Baldwin “is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.” All art is storytelling. Even the most minimal monochromatic painting or atonal symphony is communicating a story the [...]
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THE LAST SURVIVOR – A Professional Development Opportunity, June 7
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Careers in Media Literacy
- Making Progress – Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media
