Teaching Media Literacy Through Media That Matters
Posted on July 21, 2005
By Andrea Quijada of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
Hi, I have returned to New Mexico from Monterey, CA where the Alliance for Community Media held its annual international conference and trade show. It was my first time attending this conference and I was excited to present a workshop in the final session of the last day titled "Media For The People?" In this workshop we reviewed news clips, discussed how news is constructed, deconstructed more examples, and held a lively (but abbreviated) conversation on whether or not the "techniques of persuasion" used by new media are techniques that we as a movement should or should not utilize.
Andrea Quijada from the New Mexico Media Literacy Project
We ended the workshop with the film The News Is What We Make It from the Media That Matters Film Festival. Audience members responded well to the film's humor, cleverness, and topic. It was a great way to end the workshop since its story line brilliantly ties together issues of news construction and media ownership with the triumph of individual and community power. A big thank you to MediaRights for the getting us the film on time, and also a big thank you to everyone who attended the workshop.
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