Youth will no doubt give this one a nudge up the internet viral video charts, right up there with the ol’ Elf Yourself campaign we wrote about last season. Witty, seamless, and oh-so-relevant for the U.S. 2008 fall election year blitz, this campaign’s for you (literally) whether you’re ‘red, blue, or green’ in partisan politics... Insert YOUR … [Read more...]
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#MoreLikeThisPlease #Journo Media needs to callout those enabling, normalizing and perpetuating violent rhetoric and privileged rule bending. Pandering in the name of “both sides-ism” is dismantling democracy. #TruthMatters
A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can:
"Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html
Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:
📢 New report from the #DigitalFutures4Children centre on ‘Best Interests of the Child in The Digital Environment.’ @5RightsFound @MediaLSE
What does #BestInterests mean in #UNCRC? How should/shouldn't it be applied in the #DigitalEnvironment
Read at: https://buff.ly/4atGZgS
Love this idea @MindShiftKQED! Innovation for education stimulates learning and embeds core concepts of #medialiteracy and helps debunk #misinformation 🔎🙌 #edu #parenting #k12
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Pop Culture on Parade: JibJab’s Hilarious Manic Media Montage
Jan.2, 2010 My head is still spinning (no, not from ‘The Hangover’ post)... My brain is simply trying to catch up with my eyeballs in this frenetic musical media montage which salutes the past year in PG-13ish ‘Where’s Waldo-style.’ Reminiscent of Dan Meth’s ‘Internet People’ viral video from awhile back (Dan has several new mashups beyond the stoic squirrel, spoofing … [Read more...]