The Media Show

NEW EPISODE! We talk about how camera angles shape how you feel youtube.com/watch?v=VoR-NM…

Meanwhile people in the UK continue to confuse our puppets with a UK show we have a namespace collision with

A banner day for media literacy. We often recommend playing the Benny Hill theme over a serious or scary video clip to show how music influences your feelings about the content. Some brilliant Brit is using that tactic to say the quiet part about UK parliament news out loud.

ICYMI, we now have grade-appropriate playlists! Here's episodes for older than grade 9 youtube.com/playlist?list=… These were meant for out-of-school viewing and can be quite off-color, but every parent's tolerance varies; some may be fine with younger kids watching these.

In case you missed it, there are now age-appropriate Media Show playlists! Here's our media and digital literacy episodes for grades 6-8. Note this may mean mild language ("crap," "screw you") and off-color situations (butts) youtube.com/playlist?list=…

In case you missed it, there are now age-appropriate Media Show playlists! youtube.com/playlist?list=… works for grades 3-5.

Media Show fans get up to some fun stuff! Here's a great, puppet-filled parody ad from @ulotrichous youtube.com/watch?v=8dxmBq…

Get some media literacy to South By Southwest! Vote to send the founder of The Media Show to talk about her new book, Keep Calm and Log On!

Send an offshoot of The Media Show to SXSW! Vote for Gus's talk!

@Nickf4rr Our contribution youtube.com/watch?v=sWc03K…

I want to shift my Twitter brand so that when I say I'm going through a bad case of the sads, people send cat and garden pictures. Because if I said that now, I'd just hear misogynistic comments from dudebros, stalkers offering to visit and exes saying I deserve it. #FML

@Bolster @Nickf4rr I see you and raise you

Ad agency @ogilvy has a $12m contract with the US Customs & Border Protection to help them with public relations... ...for the concentration camps on the US/Mexico border

Drink commercial by @stevegiralt. The FTC prohibits color or texture enhancements in food commercials so staging is critical.

Seriously these are the best literacy standards I think I've ever seen, media, digital, or otherwise

Teachers: want certification in Digital Literacy from the best minds in the field? This is the program you want... twitter.com/reneehobbs/sta…

@cyberbgone At... *your* job?!

Ah, the joys of mandatory, annual #infosec training.

@EvenlodeFilms wrong @TheMediaShow, sorry, we're youtube.com/themediashow

What a fabulous day 1 @TheMediaShow today. Fascinating. Highly recommended. London Olympia. Day 2 14 June ...go ...

@Max_Rasheane @AshrafGarda Probably the wrong Media Show, we're youtube.com/themediashow

@TheMediaShow @AshrafGarda we are grateful for the show and the guests you bring to #TheMediaShow

Actually, I'm pretty certain any advertising firm like @trendhunter wants #addiction, literally, when they are talking about youth and technology. And that's a problem, and we should talk about it with parents! twitter.com/davidkleeman/s…