Comments on: Foreign correspondents, authority, social media and more: further thoughts from the GRITtv roundtable http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/06/25/foreign-correspondents-authority-social-media-and-more/ Media technologist and author in Brooklyn, NY. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike RG http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/06/25/foreign-correspondents-authority-social-media-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-8179 Mike RG Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:28:42 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=639#comment-8179 Hi Deanna, The GritTV roundtable seems to have been pretty thought provoking. I just wanted to write to link you to some great work in media literacy in the U.S.--check out the Media Education Lab at Temple University where I've loved working the past through year as I trudge through graduate school there. My colleagues and mentors there are pioneers, leaders and up-and-comers in the field whose research, curricula, production work and community outreach artifacts can be found on the site. Given your background, I thought you might find mypopstudio.com especially interesting, a game website for tween girls to develop ml skills while having fun. I also got to do the PBS social media curricula for the 2008 election season with a team from the lab--a big deal, as you may know, for PBS to put its (relatively conservative) stamp of approval on the DANGEROUS world of social media, or so the majority of k-12 educators would assume. Anyhow, it's a great place to start if you really want to find out what's going on in media literacy education and what's been going on for a few decades in the U.S. (see resource links to find other programs). Also, you may want to have a look at NAMLE (National Association for Media Literacy Education; formerly AMLA--Alliance for Media Literate America), the largest organization of ML educators in North America, which has its bi-annual conference in Detroit this August. For a more activist slant, try the anti-corporate, anti-big media, power to the local storyteller and media-maker organization ACME (the Action Coalition for Media Education), which splintered from the AMLA over differences in corporate involvement some 10 years ago. Lots going on. Always hoping more people fan the flames! Mike Hi Deanna,

The GritTV roundtable seems to have been pretty thought provoking. I just wanted to write to link you to some great work in media literacy in the U.S.–check out the Media Education Lab at Temple University where I’ve loved working the past through year as I trudge through graduate school there. My colleagues and mentors there are pioneers, leaders and up-and-comers in the field whose research, curricula, production work and community outreach artifacts can be found on the site. Given your background, I thought you might find mypopstudio.com especially interesting, a game website for tween girls to develop ml skills while having fun. I also got to do the PBS social media curricula for the 2008 election season with a team from the lab–a big deal, as you may know, for PBS to put its (relatively conservative) stamp of approval on the DANGEROUS world of social media, or so the majority of k-12 educators would assume. Anyhow, it’s a great place to start if you really want to find out what’s going on in media literacy education and what’s been going on for a few decades in the U.S. (see resource links to find other programs). Also, you may want to have a look at NAMLE (National Association for Media Literacy Education; formerly AMLA–Alliance for Media Literate America), the largest organization of ML educators in North America, which has its bi-annual conference in Detroit this August. For a more activist slant, try the anti-corporate, anti-big media, power to the local storyteller and media-maker organization ACME (the Action Coalition for Media Education), which splintered from the AMLA over differences in corporate involvement some 10 years ago. Lots going on. Always hoping more people fan the flames!

Mike

]]> By: Bill http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/06/25/foreign-correspondents-authority-social-media-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-8169 Bill Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:11:35 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=639#comment-8169 There are some very paternalistic, one might even be tempted to say imperialistic, reasons why news coverage from locals in Iran is less valued than, say, an American reporter. People, whether consciously or not, assume that those locally involved in the situation lack a strong enough grasp on the "big picture" to be neutral and accurate. They are presumed to be, as it were, too involved. Of course there is a whole "big picture" inaccessibly to the foreign reporter as well, the big picture of what this all means and is like for someone who really is living it. In a sense we are all always "too involved" and old models of neutrality and objectivity simply work to enforce certain TYPES of involvement over others. There are some great interviews with to journalists about the future of journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have found useful. There are some very paternalistic, one might even be tempted to say imperialistic, reasons why news coverage from locals in Iran is less valued than, say, an American reporter. People, whether consciously or not, assume that those locally involved in the situation lack a strong enough grasp on the “big picture” to be neutral and accurate. They are presumed to be, as it were, too involved. Of course there is a whole “big picture” inaccessibly to the foreign reporter as well, the big picture of what this all means and is like for someone who really is living it. In a sense we are all always “too involved” and old models of neutrality and objectivity simply work to enforce certain TYPES of involvement over others. There are some great interviews with to journalists about the future of journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have found useful.

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