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Media Messages
Posted at 4:18 PM on December 12, 2007 by Nanci Olesen (0 Comments)
Every day we receive hundreds of messages from the media about how we should look and how we should act.
How damaging are the messages we receive? How damaging are these messages for children and teens?
Minnesota based Mind on the Media is a new website launched to help girls and women be recognized as leaders of social change, critical thinkers, role models, and to “acknowledge that their beauty exists independent of negative media stereotypes.”
The National Institute on Media and the Family, also based in Minnesota, provides Mediawise, which seeks to “educate and inform the public, and to encourage practices and policies that promote positive change in the production and use of mass media.”
The National Parent Teacher Association studies media and technology and devotes a section of their website to resources for media safety.
Are you aware of what the kids in your lives are watching?
What do kids take in about messages of what’s beautiful, and what’s cool?
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