Media Literacy

"The emergence of new digital and hybrid forms of advertisement has renewed interest in advertising-literacy education.
Teachers need high-quality educational resources in order to foster advertising literacy among their students. In this article, we review free online educational materials, using an evaluation instrument that could help users determine the quality of advertising-literacy materials. The instrument could also be used as a checklist in the development of lesson plans. We also discuss the state of the current supply of advertising-literacy materials."

Michel Walrave and Joris Van Ouytsel co-authored a guide for parents, teachers and other adults involved in the education of young people. This book includes a review of the scientific knowledge on several online behaviours and related opportunities and risks (self-disclosure, privacy, sexting, cyberbullying, online marketing, ...). Each chapter ends with concrete advice for parents, teachers and young people. The book is published in Dutch

The occupation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 has become the most mediatised armed conflict in history as both sides were extremely media conscious, to the point that almost no shots were fired partly due to the sides' reluctance to be seen as the initiator of bloodshed. Mediatised warfare based on spectacle quasi social movement techniques (blockings and takovers) prevented casualties, but it also gave much advantage to the attacking side who imposed its agenda and forced the defender to assume the role and responsibility of a military aggressor on its own ground

"Recurso didáctico para el fomento de la competencia digital, concretamente la competencia comunicativa a través del correo electrónico.
Nivel educativo: 5º-6º de Educación Primaria
Objetivos:
- Desarrollar las destrezas digitales, utilizando dos herramientas básicas (correo, documentos compartidos)
- Fomentar el trabajo colaborativo en grupo
- Desarrollar roles (elegirán un encargado de crear el documento y compartirlo, y repartirán el trabajo)"

here are heated debates occurring around the world about the big changes and huge advances which technology has performed in our society. Digital divide, digital skills, knowledge and network society, unequal resources... These are all concepts we all have in mind when we think about what is happening in our environment with developments in technology. Even more so when we consider thoroughly what is happening in the education of our offspring. Although the new digital environment offers great opportunities and possibilities of constructing knowledge, our society urgently needs different strategies in the educational system to ensure a comprehensive training in the digital age. This essay will deal with the aspects of this new emerging society emphasizing that finding, evaluating and using information will be crucial for our children´s future. The key aspect of this paper is how to empower children in their daily Internet browsing by introducing media literacy at primary school. To this end this paper will present the results of a media literacy project named "Conectados" which introduces media literacy in the classroom using one specific tool: the iPad. With this new device the project tries to enhance the instruction of children between 7-8 years of age, who are in fact daily users of the Internet.

"Que el mundo está cada vez más interconectado es una afirmación casi irrefutable que modifica el modo en el que las personas se comunican globalmente. Este hecho propicia el desarrollo de nuevas maneras de pensar, nuevas maneras de crear y compartir el conocimiento. En este contexto de cambios y retos los profesores se encuentran con la gran responsabilidad de enseñar a sus alumnos no sólo nuevas herramientas, sino también nuevas destrezas para afrontar su futuro.
Tal vez sea necesario repensar la educación de un modo práctico, y no tanto teórico, desarrollando recursos para formar a nuestros niños desde pequeños. Para ello resulta determinante enfatizar que la búsqueda, selección y almacenamiento de información será una asignatura crucial para nuestros “nativos digitales”; esta comunicación trata de encontrar las claves necesarias para el desarrollo de la alfabetización digital como una asignatura porque no se trata sólo de una tendencia, sino de una necesidad."

""Contenido:
Transculturación de los juegos; Militarización del ambiente virtual; Discurso de odio; ¿Juego, ciencia o arte?; Nueva era en estudios de los juegos; Una industria multimillonaria; Las sociedades virtuales; Anonimato y “des-individualización”;  Discurso de odio, racismo y prejuicio como productos humanos; Estereotipos y los medios; Violencia y Trastornos de personalidad; Racismo y discriminación racial; Más allá de
Representaciones negativas; Minorías en los videojuegos; Violencia contra mujeres y sexismo; Adicción a un campo minado y finalmente Efecto de cultivo en los juegos.
Más de 208 fuentes citadas, 53 ilustraciones de los principales juegos de video analizados y un completo índice analítico, son algunas de las características de este ensayo. ""

This article reviews research on the effects of television and magazines on body image and on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in females. Evidence from different types of studies in the fields of eating disorders, media psychology, health psychology, and mass communication indicates that mass media are an extremely important source of information and reinforcement in relation to the nature of the thin beauty ideal, its importance, and how to attain it. Although considerable research remains to be done, evidence is accumulating that repeated exposure to media and to both direct and indirect (via media's effects on peers, parents, coaches, physicians, etc.) pressures from media to be thin constitute risk factors for body dissatisfaction, concerns over weight and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls and young women. To guide further research, as well as the prevention and treatment of disordered eating, we present a figural summary of media effects that integrates moderating and mediating factors such as internalization of the thin beauty ideal, social comparison, and activation of the thinness schema. We argue that risk factor research, prevention, and treatment will benefit from systematic research designed to clarify how the impact of various mass media is shaped by source and receiver/perceiver factors.

The portrayal of Hispanics in American film and television has focused traditionally in negative stereotypes of the worst values and traditions of the Spanish-speaking communities in the country, with a racist and prejudiced misrepresented focus, a sample of the superficiality and hatred by some in the media industry. Recent examples show that our theory is not so far from reality as we all do want.