Why does music make us cry?
Media literacy’s great gift to society—a hallmark of the work of Marshall McLuhan and Ted Carpenter—is its willingness to take popular culture seriously; to expose it to the same rigours of [...]
The popularity of memes
Everyone who has used the internet for personal social communication and entertainment in the last few years has seen a meme. The meme: –“a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or [...]
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Why are there villains?
by Neil Andersen, Carol Arcus, Margie Keats, Diana Maliszewski and Michelle Solomon How could victims need rescuing without villains to abuse [...]
NFL National Anthem Protests
Late September, 2017 provided media students with a wonderful opportunity to discuss the relationships between and among politics, news, sports and the global village. Note the update at the end [...]
