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WORLD HOT SPOTS => Media Watch => Topic started by: Iniko Ujaama on March 06, 2009, 04:36:55 AM



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