Food media literacy is essential to health. Achieving both requires not just unpacking the ingredients of foods but also decoding how the messages about them are packaged and delivered for ideological consumption. McDonald’s is masterful at (among other things) feeding public demand for “behind the scenes” information to dispel rumors about their food products while at the same time downplaying their potential hazards [click title to read more]
Tag: media literacy
In the Know About H20
The Story of Stuff project team is known for their creativity and critical consumer and environmental activism in partnership with empowered marketer Free Range Studios….
Exercise Your Visual Literacy Skills
Media literacy is key to health literacy. But what does media literacy look like in everyday life? Here is one simple yet elegant example of…
Media Literacy from the Beginning
I am so excited to be a part of Right from the Start in the Digital Age launched by FHI 360 this week—during the inaugural…
A Parent’s Guide to Media Violence and Agression in School
This time of the year, many parents worry about their kids’ safety at school. Tragic and violent events, like those that occurred at Columbine High…
Go ahead and bug me with The Good Stuff
Thank you, PBS Digital Studios, for reviving the 2013 (originally Google-funded) Internet program, “The Good Stuff,” which launched new episodes as of May 2015. The YouTube…
ABCs of Media Literacy
The good folks at the Family Online Safety Institute asked me to write a Back-to-School blogpost for their Digital Backpack series. What’s the one thing…
Join us at NAMLE in Philly this summer
Interested in joining me to learn more about media literacy & media use in the classroom? I am very excited about the eclectic program I’ve assembled of some of the best and brightest media literacy scholars, educators, practitioners, activists and artists around. Read more
The Debut of Healthy Teens [Blog]
I recently crafted the blog healthyteens.us as an extension of the ideas in my new book, Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools. My goal is to create a collaboratory for ideas on how media…
Fighting the Good (Food) Fight
One-third of children and over fifty-percent of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese. Each day 3,000 Americans die from heart disease…