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Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) 255 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2W6 | |||||
| Monday, May 15, 2000 -- 10.45 to 12.15 | |
| RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF MEDIA LITERACY INSTRUCTION ON STUDENTS' LEARNING |
Research evidence on 400 students in a New Hampshire high school where media education is being integrated into the Grade 11 English curriculum. Documents the impact of media education on students' writing, reasoning, critical thinking & analysis skills. Renee Hobbs, USA |
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| SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH IN U.S. MEDIA EDUCATION FRAMEWORKS: A STATE-BY-STATE ANALYSIS |
48 of the 50 United States have media education elements in their state educational frameworks. Most frameworks are in language/communication arts, social studies/civics, & in health and consumer education curricula. This development marks a significant challenge & opportunity for U.S. media educators. Robert Kubey & Frank W. Baker, USA |
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| YOUTH FANTASIES: THE X-FILES: AN INTERCULTURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA (EDMONTON) & AUSTRIA (KLAGENFURT) |
Our research claim is to articulate the various fantasy formations that emerge when teenagers report to us their experiences of the well-known & high profiled television series The X-Files. JanJagodzinski, Canada & Brigitte Hipfl, Austria |
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| REMOTE CONTROL CHILDHOOD: COMBATING THE HAZARDS OF MEDIA CULTURE |
Explores the ways media culture (especially media violence) enters children's lives & how it affects their development, learning, play & behavior. Media culture has made it necessary to rethink current understandings of "children's needs" & to devise strategies to meet them. Diane Levin, USA |
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| QUE FAIT-ON EN LE FAISANT? |
On essayera de le montrer, à travers quelques exemples internationaux, et on insistera sur l'urgence qu'il y a, après plus de vingt années d'expériences et de pratiques de par le monde, à renouveler les "concensus" sur l'éducation aux médias. Genevieve Jacquinot, France |
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| L'INTÉGRATION DES NOUVELLS TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION |
Or l'avènement des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la ommunication (NTIC), et particulièrement Internet, vient remettre en question l'éducation aux medias dans ses fondements, ses approches et ses stratégies d'implantation. Jacques Piette, Canada |
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| MEDIA EDUCATION, PUBLIC SPHERE & CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP |
Using Hong Kong as a case to explore the relationships among media education, public sphere and critical citizenship. A socially participatory approach to media education will be put to test in a political context of post-colonial society under indirect rule by China. Alice Y. L. Lee, Hong Kong |
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| WESTERN MEDIA INFLUENCES & THE CULTURAL IMPACT ON INDIAN YOUTH |
How 'western' images & icons have permeated the Indian subcontinent largely through expanding satellite & cable networks through television, music, dance & movies resulting in indigenous blends of 'Indipop' 'Disco dandiya' etc. Kavita Karan, India |
| Monday, May 15, 2000 -- 2:15 to 3:45 | |
| IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDIA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE IN KOREA |
Examines Korean media education in its specific cultural & social context, including the recent Korean Educational Reforms. Evaluates a pilot media teacher training course & makes recommendations for the future development of media education in Korean schools & teacher training institutions. Clotilde Young Sook Lee, Korea |
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| FOR KID'S SAKE: COMPARING CHILDREN'S TELEVISION POLICY-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA & THE UNITED STATES |
This research attempts to contribute to the design of a universal policy by exploring whether consensus exists among the standards for children's television policy in Australia, Canada & the United States. Joanne Lisosky, USA |
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| ORGANIZING THE DIFFERENCE OR COLONIZING THE SYSTEMWORLD |
Results of a research project in Eastern Europe by management students. Using video as a research tool, as well as theoretical & practical notions & methodologies from visual anthropology & action learning, they worked with video feedback loops to change certain situations. Dirk Schouten, The Netherlands |
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| GO GIRLS! PREVENTING NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE THROUGH MEDIA LITERACY |
Go Girls! is a media literacy curriculum designed to prevent negative body image & disordered eating by engaging high school girls in Thoman's cycle of media literacy: Awareness - Analysis - Activism - Advocacy - Access. Michael Levine & Niva Piran, USA |
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| MEDIA IN ACTION: NAVIGATING ADOLESCENCE WITH SPORT & FITNESS MEDIA |
Findings from adolescent attitudes, activity & interpretive relationships with media project. Teens employ media to serve as resources for navigating relationships with family and peers, constructing gendered bodies, testing & producing subcultural identities, & subverting adult authority & health messages. Margaret MacNeill, Canada |
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| CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPEAN CHILDREN IN TRANSFORMING MEDIA SYSTEMS |
This paper concentrates on how children's "media experience" has changed in the past decade, with regard to both commercial & public television in the rapidly transforming media systems of Central-Eastern Europe. Katalin Lustyik, Hungary |
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| LA COMUNICACION ES EL MEDIO: INVESTIGACIONES DE CAMPO CUANTICUALITATIVAS E INTERDISCIPLINARIAS |
A traves de una metodologia interdisciplinaria y con diferente tecnicas de recoleccion de la informacion ( entrevistas abiertas, dibujos, actuaciones filmadas, entrevistas a padres y productores y analisis de contenido) se intenta ver la forma en que los ninos seleccionan e integran a su vida cotidiana los contenidos televisivos. Tatiana Merlo Flores, Argentina |
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| FORMACION DE FORMADORES PARA INTRODUCIR LA PRENSA, LA RADIO Y LA TELEVISION EN LAS ESCUELAS CATALANAS DE SECUNDARIA |
En esta línea de introducir una diversidad de medios dentro del currículum se fundamenta la propuesta integral de formación de formadores de Teleduca, destinada al profesorado de secundaria. La educación en medios, además, ha de contemplar todo el proceso comunicativo para posibilitar una interpretación global y completa de los documentos y los fenómenos mediáticos. Carme Mayugo, Spain |
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