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New Ways to Wander
ByDiana Maliszewski December 24, 2023

In a 2019 post on the AML website, https://aml.ca/barrys-wander-2019-a-personal-reflection/, Carol Arcus described her experience participating in a “Barry’s Wander”. A Barry’s Wander, originally called a “Mall Crawl” or “Street Wander” but now named after its creator and AML founder Barry Duncan, is an experience where participants walk around a specifically selected area with the purpose…

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Barry Duncan – Our Founder and Mentor
ByAML October 6, 2019

Barry Duncan was our founder, our mentor, and our great friend. If not for Barry, AML would not exist. He was a deep influence on hundreds of teachers as they refined their own media teaching expertise. He authored several textbooks (notably, Mass Media and Popular Culture), and received several awards and international accolades for his…

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Barry’s Wander 2019 – A Personal Reflection
ByAML October 1, 2019

On October 5, a small but plucky band of wanderers paid tribute to AML’s founder and mentor, Barry Duncan, by walking through Canoe Landing Park in Toronto and the surrounding environments. Here are some words that Neil Andersen wrote in 2012, the year of Barry’s passing: “Barry was a local, national and international provocateur, advocating…

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The Journal of Media Literacy – Agency
ByNeil Andersen March 21, 2017

Neil Andersen and Carol Arcus of The Association for Media Literacy are proud to have been the guest editors of the Agency issue of The Journal of Media Literacy. We chose Agency as the issue’s theme because there is ongoing debate over how users can exercise agency within environments comprised of big data, multinational media…

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Media Exams
ByNeil Andersen January 29, 2013

Stuck for a media exam question for your media class? Here are suggestions, by Barry Duncan.

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A Media Literacy Menu : Ingredients for Successful Media Studies
ByNeil Andersen January 29, 2013

The following observations are designed to serve as probes and provocations to uncover the essence of some important ideas about media education and media studies. Based largely on the experience of The Association for Media Literacy during the last ten years, I hope these ideas and resources will stimulate discussion and debate.

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Media Education: Literacy, Learning, and Contemporary Culture by David Buckingham
ByNeil Andersen January 29, 2013

It would not be an exaggeration to assert that this book is the most important book on the theory and practice of media education in the last 10 years.

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Media Education in Canada
ByNeil Andersen January 29, 2013

by Barry Duncan, John Pungente SJ, and Neil Andersen September 1, 2002 1: INTRODUCTION In 1922, Lewis Selznik, the Hollywood producer, is reported to have said: “If Canadian stories are worthwhile making into movies, then companies will be sent into Canada to make them.” Selznik’s dismissive words encapsulate a not uncommon attitude among some…

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Media Violence and OSSTF: A Response
ByNeil Andersen January 27, 2013

by Barry Duncan March 6, 2007 In recent years, we have noticed that several teacher unions, e.g, OSSTF and FESSO have denounced the proliferation of media violence and its alleged effects on youth. With a coalition of over five groups, concrete action is now underway. AML is pleased to be playing a major role…

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The Political History of the AML, Part 2
ByNeil Andersen January 27, 2013

by Derek Boles On the provincial political front, the Liberal government earned the enmity of Ontario teachers by re-organizing the Teachers Pension Fund, the second largest in Canada. Among other changes, the Peterson government introduced an increase in teacher contributions to the fund. The militant Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation decided to encourage its members…

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