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Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) 255 Front Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2W6 | |||||
| Saturday, May 13, 2000 -- 10.45 to 12.15 | |
| TO BE SEEN & HEARD: CHILDREN OF THE WORLD SPEAK OUT |
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states: "The child shall have the right to freedom of expression through any media of the child's choice." In The Future is Now, an international production, children & youth speak about their own experiences. Leslie Adams, Canada |
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| EMPOWERING CHILDREN THROUGH RADIO IN WEST AFRICA & EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF "EDUTAINMENT" |
Two innovative development programs in West Africa, initiated by Plan International, have generated children's participation through radio, while providing children with information on the rights of the Child, and other life skills. Mimi Brazeau, Senegal |
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| MAKING MOVIES MATTER | A 1999 UK government-sponsored report proposed the redevelopment of education about the moving image media. This presentation argues for "moving image literacy" as a better basis for coherent & radical education policies than the confused & sprawling project of "media literacy." Cary Bazalgette, United Kingdom |
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| APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF THE ACTIVE AUDIENCE TO ASSESSMENT IN MEDIA STUDIES |
Assessment should take account of research in reception analysis. Examples are given of answers to essay questions which enable assessment to engender & grade with accuracy differing levels of conceptual understanding. Robert Beveridge, United Kingdom |
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| LOS NUEVOS LENGUAJES DE LA COMUNICACION EN LA EXTENSION UNIVERSITARIA |
Presentar y analizar dos videos y un manual producidos para la utilizacion en actividades de extension del Proyecto de Aprovechamiento los Residuos de la /SP de la Escuela Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz." Laura Alves Martirani, Brazil |
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| UN NUEVO CAMINO ENTRE EDUCADORES Y COMUNICADORES |
Esta comunicacion presenta el recorrido de produccion de un material multimedia, CD Rom, que recoge las reflexiones y opiniones de varios expertos en Comunicacion y Educacion en Sao Paulo, Brasil, en mayo de 1998. Genaro Fernandez Baena, Spain |
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| MEDIA LITERACY IN A BLUE COLLAR NEW ENGLAND TOWN |
How high school students understand the positive and negative impact of television viewing; should media literacy be taught in the classroom; and are students benefiting from the assimilation of media literacy into the classroom. Edward J. Downes & Amy Lassiter, USA |
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| RUSSIAN TEENAGERS & VIOLENCE OF THE SCREEN |
Because Russian TV shows many programs with violence, there is a public debate on young people and violence. This paper examines results from a survey done of 430 Russian high school students. Alexander Fedorov, Russia |
| Saturday, May 13, 2000 -- 2:15 to 3:45 | |
| LOS PROPIETARIOS DEL CIBERSESPACIO |
Sus implicaciones en la educacion del siglo XXI. Internet se ha convertido en muy pocos anos en un nuevo medio para difundir la informacion de una forma rapida y barata. Las grandes empresas relacionadas con las tecnologias de la informacion y la comunicacion han descubierto un nuevo e interesante mercado aun por conquistar. Carlos Buson Buesa, Spain |
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| VISIBILIDAD MEDIATICA DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL Y CONSTRUCCION DEMOCRATICA |
Nuevas propuestas teoricas como la democracia deliberativa y asociativa advierten la necesidad de potenciar procesos de empowerment que refuercen organizativamente y discursivamente actores sociales que incidan en los momentos deliberativos del proceso politico y contar en los procesos de negociacion del proceso decisorio. Ariel Jerez, Spain |
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| READING SPORTS ADVERTISEMENTS: AN INVESTIGATION OF YOUTH INTERPRETATIONS |
Reading sports advertisements may yield a greater understanding of the role of advertising & provide a valuable tool when encountering a variety of media texts. Based on research done with adolescents exploring interpretations of sports advertisements. Allison Butler, USA |
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| MEDIA LITERACY & THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CULTURE |
Dominant definitions of media literacy in the United States tend to depoliticize & underwrite the global and local expansion of commercial culture. We must redefine media literacy in ways that could contest this movement, and build constituencies for democratic media systems. Norman Cowie, USA |
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| CRITICISM: VISUALITY AS ACTIVISM IN THE ACADEMY |
Explores the role that visual processes and strategies can serve in the activist role of encouraging students to take critical positions on disciplinary conventions in the art world, in the academy at large & in the media. Michael Emme, Canada |
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