Media+Literacy

2.19.08 Today's assignment: Choose your 3 favorite films, television shows, books, magazines, and recording artists. Using the links below and the Ultra- Concentrated Media handout, find out who owns the companies thta distribute your media favorites. You may have to google each item on your list to find out the company that produced it.

[|Who owns what?] [|Who owns the media?]

[|Merchants of Cool: Media Giants] Merchants of Cool: Response Paragraphs If you missed class or would like to watch any of the documentary over, it is available online [|here] We watched chapters 2-5 in class.

[|Media Literacy Article List] [|Media Literacy Definitions] [|And Then There Were Eight...25 Years of Media Mergers] [|Parents T.V.] [|A Normative Study of Family Media Habits] [|Degradation Inc.] [|MEDIA; At CBS, the Lines Between News and Entertainment Grow Fuzzier] [|Woman's Image in a Mirror: Who Defines What She Sees?] [|Reality Televison Editorial]

[|Plato's Allegory of the Cave]