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Newsweek's Media Literacy Skills Builder
Help students understand advertising, media ownership, and issues of representation.
Analyzing the media
- Assessing your communication skills
- The media literacy remote control
- Five critical questions
- Media use motives
- CREATE: Keep a media journal
Understanding advertising
- Poetry and advertising
- Attitudes about advertising
- CREATE: Analyze two ads
Who owns the media?
- Understanding media economics
- Analyzing leads on AOL-Time Warner merger
- Cartoon merger
- What's in a Letter?
- CREATE: Write a letter to the editor
Representation
- Manhood on the mat
- TV's skin-deep take on race
- The culture of celebrity
- Four by four on fame
- CREATE: An interview and audio essay
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