Blog Posts on media literacy

Miss Representation by spelling tuesday on Oct 14, 2011Miss Representation is a documentary written and directed by Stanford University graduate Jennifer Siebel Newsom about how women are portrayed by the media. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival under the Documentary competition on Jan...

If magazines were blunt... by The Plump Pinay on Aug 3, 2011It would look like this.grabbed from Any-Body's Facebook pageI've seen one spread from Preview that supposedly showcased swimsuits for every body type. As I flipped through the pages, they used ONE SKINNY MODEL for several, differing swimsuit styles.

ADVERTISING TECHNIQUES TO TARGET CHILDREN by Thinking Made Easy on May 9, 2011ADVERTISING TECHNIQUES TO TARGET CHILDREN The concern on advertising techniques to target children is a proof that children make a bigger slice of the advertising and consuming market. A study conducted by the 2000 YTV Kid and Tween Report in Canada,...

Boycotting Tanya Markova's Linda Blair by School Librarian In Action on Jan 24, 2011There's this interesting discussion in one of my egroups - Pinoy Teacher's Network, on the song Linda Blair by Tanya Markova. The song has some lyrics that are offensive and a story line that puts teachers in a very bad light. A suggestion to boycott...

Magsimula ka by Going against the current on Nov 23, 2010I didn’t know that the classic OPM song Magsimula Ka came from a musical of the same title. It was, according to my friend Gibbs Cadiz, one of the very first musicals in Filipino staged in the 1980s. With the onslaught of Broadway musicals that...

Young People, Social Media and Government by Pinoy Youth on Sep 14, 2009If you have any doubt that companies and even governments are targeting young people in their information and communication campaign, you can set those doubts aside now. Even during the Economic recession in the United States, companies are still the...

A Return to the Native: Ifugao Chronicles 2 by spelling tuesday on Nov 21, 2008I FOUND MUCH OF MY early November days organizing thoughts down to a Keynote presentation for a mixed audience scheduled for November 10-13, originally, but was cut short by one day: a workshop on newsletter writing and design in Banaue, Ifugao.Day 1...