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The Impact of Media: Teaching Teens to Think for Themselves

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by Susan M. Novick

Web sites

MyPopStudio.com: My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. Users select from four behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn more about mass media.

CommonSenseMedia: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families.

American Academy of Pediatrics Media Matters Campiagn

Girls, Women + Media Project: The Girls, Women + Media Project is a 21st century, non-profit initiative and network working to increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women---and to advocate for improvement in those areas.

Growing Up Online,” a new Frontline program to be aired in January, 2008.

Books

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Henry Jenkins, NYU Press

Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online, by Anastasia Goodstein, St. Martin’s Griffin

The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children, by James P. Steyer and Chelsea Clinton, Atria

 

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