* Media literacy

The School of Media Arts ( SOMA ) was established in 2001 to focus on applied communication, visual literacy and digital media.

Media literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms.

Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages.

Media literacy education may explore how structural features — such as media ownership, or its funding model -- affect the information presented.

Media literacy can be seen as contributing to an expanded conceptualization of literacy, treating mass media, popular culture and digital media as new types of ' texts ' that require analysis and evaluation.

Media literacy education is sometimes conceptualized as a way to address the negative dimensions of mass media, popular culture and digital media, including media violence, gender and racial stereotypes, the sexualization of children, and concerns about loss of privacy, cyberbullying and Internet predators.

Most recently, the UNESCO Action for Media Education and Literacy brought together experts from numerous regions of the world to " catalyze processes to introduce media and information literacy components into teacher training curricula worldwide.

Media literacy education is actively focused on the instructional methods and pedagogy of media literacy, integrating theoretical and critical frameworks rising from constructivist learning theory, media studies and cultural studies scholarship.

Voices of Media Literacy, a project of the Center for Media Literacy representing first-person interviews with media literacy pioneers active prior to 1990 in English-speaking countries, provides historical context for the rise of the media literacy field and is available at http :// www. medialit. org / voices-media-literacy-international-pioneers-speak Media education is developing in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the United States, with a growing interest in the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, India, Russia and among many other nations.

Since this curriculum strives to reflect the values and principles of a democratic society there seems to be an opportunity for critical literacy and Media Education in Languages and Culture courses.

In North America, the beginnings of a formalized approach to media literacy as a topic of education is often attributed to the 1978 formation of the Ontario-based Association for Media Literacy ( AML ).

Media literacy competencies can also be cultivated in the home, through activities including co-viewing and discussion.

Media literacy education began to appear in state English education curriculum frameworks by the early 1990s as a result of increased awareness in the central role of visual, electronic and digital media in the context of contemporary culture.

Media literacy education is now gaining momentum in the United States because of the increased emphasis on 21st century literacy, which now incorporates media and information literacy, collaboration and problem-solving skills, and emphasis on the social responsibilities of communication.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Media Studies in New Zealand is very healthy, especially due to the NZ film industry and is taught at both secondary and tertiary education institutes.

* Media education

Florida's digital media industry association, Digital Media Alliance Florida, defines digital media as " the creative convergence of digital arts, science, technology and business for human expression, communication, social interaction and education ".

The university has launched its five-year strategic blueprint, NTU 2015, to scale Five Peaks of Excellence – Sustainable Earth, Future Healthcare, New Media, New Silk Road and Innovation Asia – and set new global benchmarks in research, education and innovation.

Media coverage of the case made White into a national celebrity and spokesman for AIDS research and public education.

Media education should not be confused with educational technology or with educational media.

Media education can be defined in many ways.

1 ) “ Media education in schools: the extent, aims, and conceptual basis of current provision ; the nature of assessment ; and the role of production by students .”

Media education is supported by the teacher professional association Australian Teachers of Media which publishes a range of resources and the excellent Screen Education.

Media education was introduced into the Finnish elementary curriculum in 1970 and into high schools in 1977.

Media education has been compulsory in Sweden since 1980 and in Denmark since 1970.

The important events in media education development in Russia are the registration of the new specialization ( since 2002 ) for the pedagogical universities – ‘ Media Education ’ (№ 03. 13. 30 ), and the launch of a new academic journal ‘ Media Education ’ ( since January 2005 ), partly sponsored by the ICOS UNESCO ‘ Information for All ’.

Media Awareness Network ( MNet ), a Canadian non-profit media education organization, hosts a Web site which contains hundreds of free lesson plans to help teachers integrate media into the classroom.

MNet also hosts the Talk Media Blog, a regular column on media education issues.

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

The switch from the free software movement to the open source movement has had negative effects on the progression of community, according to Christopher Kelty who dedicates a scholarly chapter to the free software movements in " Theorizing Media and Practice ".

There are four commercial, national channels: Alma Media has MTV3 and SubTV, and Sanoma has Nelonen and JIM.

Media watchdog Media Matters for America has cataloged what it called the ten most " egregious examples " of " distortion " by both Fox News and its TV personalities.

Media Blasters has acquired the DVD rights to Godzilla vs. Megalon and Destroy All Monsters.

Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

The Mass Media has been speculating that pirates from Somalia use the hawala system to move funds internationally, for example into neighboring Kenya, where these transactions are neither taxed nor recorded.

Media accounts from the year 2011 indicate that the number of businesses accepting Hours has declined.

However, the Media Standards Trust has criticised the PCC, claiming it needs to be radically changed to secure public trust of newspapers.

The MIT Media Lab, founded in 1985 within the School of Architecture and Planning and known for its unconventional research, has been home to influential researchers such as constructivist educator and Logo creator Seymour Papert.

David Gauntlett has argued for a ' Media Studies 2. 0 ' which fully recognises the ways in which media has changed, and that traditional boundaries between ' audiences ' and ' producers ' has collapsed.

Formerly an interdisciplinary major at the University of Virginia the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2001 and has quickly grown to wide recognition.

The University of Southern California has three distinct centers for media studies: the Center for Visual Anthropology ( founded in 1984 ), the Institute for Media Literacy at the School of Cinematic Arts ( founded in 1998 ) and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism ( founded in 1971 ).

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

* Paramount has also acquired ( through Trifecta Entertainment & Media ) the US TV and digital rights to most of the Carolco Pictures catalog, under license from StudioCanal, as a result of acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had been distributing the Carolco library.