This program looks at how all media, including television programs, music videos and advertising campaigns, favor lighter skin, and usually white skin.… →
Media Inside Out
Media Inside Out is a television talk show that explores the media we love to watch, listen to, read and play with an analytical and critical approach. Topics have included a discussion of diversity in commercials; the influence of news editing; and the shift in audience role from consumer to author. Media Inside Out approaches media with an appreciation for its potential as entertainment, and even as an educational tool, but balances that with an understanding of its impact and influence. Each episode digs deep into a specific media theme or media property. The series is produced and hosted by Sherri Hope Culver, director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple University. Program segments and information are conveyed in an entertaining, playful manner. The show explores, reveals, clarifies, and ultimately helps the audience appreciate the power of the media in their lives and their relationship with that media.Media Inside Out promotes creative and intellectual dialogue, while encouraging viewers to analyze their own media habits.
The impact early childhood educational media can have on a child’s success, particularly for bi-lingual and multi-lingual children, is explored with guests Ed Greene and Erica Branch-Ridley of HITN (Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network).… →
How do parents make sure that their child’s digital diet of content is smart and safe, not harmful?… →
Because of the recent #MeToo movement and Women’s Marches across the country, Merriam-Webster announced that its 2017 Word of the Year was feminism.… →
Caring and treating others with kindness is what we all try to teach our children.… →
Whether you click on or turn on or scan through your daily news update, it’s probably undeniable that the way in which that news is covered makes your head hurt, or your stomach churn, or riles up your anxiety.… →
It seems as though all of social media activity is centered on getting other people to see and “like” the posts we put online.… →
Host Sherri Hope Culver takes a step back from the radically changing view of facts and the media in our tumultuous times to examine the history of communication itself in an effort to see how we came to establish what is today being disrupted.… →
Media Inside Out: Episode 39
Media Inside Out is a television talk show that explores the media we love to watch, listen to, read and play with an analytical and critical approach.… →