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by Diana Maliszewski Media literacy can be most impactful when the media texts chosen for study are items that students interact with daily, often without much consideration. The Canadian [...]

These slides (click here) were part of a presentation by AML Director Diana Maliszewski for newly-hired permanent contract teachers in the Toronto District School Board during their Beginning [...]

Blog post by Laurie Townshend with extension activities by Michelle Solomon The U.S. Civil Rights Movement reached a peak in the 1960’s with widespread reactions to systemic racism boiling over [...]

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 [...]

How might this repugnant misogynist statement connect with the ice bucket challenge? CityTV reporter Shauna Hunt confronted a group of soccer fans who were planning to shout ‘F*ck Her Right In [...]

Carmen is an animated music video comment on social media, specifically referencing Twitter. It makes strong and unequivocal statements about the effects of social media on society. Students [...]

Produced by Dissolve, a stock footage company, to promote its catalog of video clips, this video can be read differently by different audiences. The company sells its clips to promotional firms [...]

I was helping a tutee complete an online Shakespeare assignment. The task was very good at encouraging analysis and reflection. It asked students to select a scene from a movie adaptation of the [...]

Canadaland If there is a must-read, must-see, must-hear experience for Canadians seeking to develop their media literacy, it is the Canadaland Podcast. Jesse Brown, veteran of the CBC, Saturday [...]

I am very excited about research concerning the repeated hearing of musical phrases. Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains. [...]