CRITICAL MEDIA PROJECT
Est. 2013
Enhancing young people's critical thinking and empathy.
Building on existing capacities for advocacy and change around questions of identity.
Bringing critical media literacy to youth across the United States through a
two-fold
mission
1
To raise critical awareness and provide the tools to decode media representations of identity and develop an understanding as to how these identities intersect.
2
To encourage and offer guidance for students to tell their own stories, create their own representations, and uphold their status as active and engaged participants in civic society.
learning objectives
explore
To observe and become cognizant of messages about identity that surface in everyday media and culture
expand
To understand and gain perspective on the historical, social, and political contexts of media representations of different identities
excavate
To critically decode and analyze the meanings (and ideologies) behind various representations of identity across media genres and platforms
engage
To develop and deploy strategies and skills to create one’s own representations, tell own stories, and create counter-narratives
our unique approach
800+ Media Examples
- Our site provides an extensive range of media examples that can be critically analyzed, and serve as models to inspire, reorient, and challenge.
- Our site includes examples from movies and television shows, advertisements, news, social media, and more so that students and teachers can watch, analyze, and discuss.
Accessible Curricula & Programs
- Our educational offerings are designed as a set of modular building blocks for flexible use by teachers.
- Our site includes examples from movies and television shows, advertisements, news, social media, and more so that students and teachers can watch, analyze, and discuss.
Critical Thinking & Making
- Our work encourages critical thinking, prompting complex and sometimes difficult discussions around the intersections of media, identity, and power. We are not interested in telling people what to think.
- Our work encourages critical making, that is creative production with an awareness of how media communicates meaning, messages and values.
Understanding Across Differences
- Our work is centered on honest inquiry.
- Our work encourages diversity of opinion through empathetic dialogue.
