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Title: The Media and our minds Post by: Iniko Ujaama on March 06, 2009, 04:36:55 AM Greetings All
Over the last few weeks I have been thoroughly enjoying a number of documentaries off youtube on the influence of media and looking forward to others. Most of them happened to be produced by the MEF/Media Education Foundation. http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?display=home (http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?display=home) is the link for the site where these are available Here are some of the titles (they cover everything from children, to porn, to voilence, gender, race, hiphop, etc etc) http://www.youtube.com/user/ChallengingMedia (http://www.youtube.com/user/ChallengingMedia) Big Bucks, Big Pharma Reel Bad Arabs Tough Guise The Killing Screens bell hooks: Cultural Criticism Killing us Softly - Portrayal of women in the media Generation M Hiphop:Beyond beats and Rhymes Micky Mouse MOnopoly --race, gender as portrayed in disney films Hijacking Catastrophe --on 9/11 The Price of Pleasure ---- this one is one pornography I do hope ones find this useful. This is the kind of material i would like to bring into my Social Studies classes. guidance I U Game Over:Gender Race and Violence in Video games Title: Re: The Media and our minds Post by: Iniko Ujaama on March 12, 2009, 02:31:08 AM Just sharing some videos with Mr. Edward Said who addresses the issue of the Western biases as pertain to cultures of the East.
Orientalism -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQiHuEuuhk&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQiHuEuuhk&feature=related) The Myth of a Clash of Civilization - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8djF62Qlmo&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8djF62Qlmo&feature=related) WEbsite -http://www.edwardsaid.org/ (http://www.edwardsaid.org/) do enjoy IU |