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"Please note that the American Anti-Aging Spolight is a paid endorsement for Caracol Cream. All information provided is for educational purposes only." (To promote their product, Caracol Cream creates a medical-sounding site--tricky advertising!)

Some researchers believe Oval Office stress accelerates aging process

A new app launched this weekend that will scan the faces of patrons in 25 bars across the city to determine their ages and genders. 

This poster from Advertising Age is updated annually, this is the latest one available. A printed copy is hanging in the M&C classroom. It lists the "Top properties of the nation's largest media companies by net revenue in 2006."

The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory Learning. Participatory Learning includes the many ways that learners (of any age) use new technologies to participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together.

"this age of fragmentation has allowed old media's disposable culture (trash TV like "Jersey Shore," faux-cialites like Speidi, tabloid news like Balloon Boy) to living on well past their normal expiration dates as prime meme material"

Mind map shows techniques to deal with distraction

Date Issued - June 26, 2006. This article is about Creative Commons and how people are trying to enforce it so that artists don't necessarily have to sign off on having their work as being copyright. Larry Rohter (the author) is a journalist who was a South American bureau chief of the New York Times but was originally born in Illinois. Rohter is for Creative Commons because everyone he quotes in his article supports this new idea. This article shows the good side of Creative Commons and how much of an advantage it could be for artists who like to make remix's, or use other artists work for a different type of art.

Many students in this new generation are plagiarizing other people's work for academic gain. Some college professors hypothesize that this is due t the laziness of students nowadays. Others believe it is because students were never taught about plagiarizing in middle school and highschool, so they do not understand that what they are doing is bad. However, regardless the case, internet is leading to an easy accessibility of past works, which makes it further difficult to stop plagiarizing.

The article is about a case regarding a violation to the Copyright Act. Whitney Harper, a high school cheerleader, participated in infringing activity on LimeWire between the ages 14-16, claiming that she thought she was simply internet radio streaming. With this "innocent infringer's" defense, she is requesting a $200 fine per song to the Recording Industry of America as opposed to the Copyright Act's minimum $750 per song fine. This would result in a total payment of $7,400 rather than $27,750. The final decision has not yet been made, and the justices of the Supreme Court have the option of taking the case and issuing a ruling, or declining to hear it. The author takes a very neutral viewpoint on the issue, expressing the opinions on both sides of the case. He presents the information in a very factual rather than biased way, and concludes the article in a non-opinionated manner. David Kravets is a technologist, political scientist, humorist, and reporter.

this article gives us a lot of information on media literacy. it is divided into 4 parts the definition of media literacy, building on experience, the current landscape, and toward a media literacy movement. in the first part of the article it focuses on the idea of media literacy being different for everyone and that people of all ages use media literacy to understand media for all different reasons. but it does summarize that almost all use it and it is useful for all. as for the second part, it talks about how media literacy is a challenge in the United States of America but there is always some kind of new device or way to spread media literacy and make it more common in the USA. the second part also talks about how media literacy is spread/used in Germany and Canada and how its starting to be used and spread in the USA. part three talks about the challenges that the spread of media literacy has, not allowing it to spread as much as it should. in addition it takes these problems and states some opportunities that come out of them for the spread of media literacy. the fourth and final section of this article talks about the future and what people need to do if media literacy is going to be spread. after stating the needs that media literacy has in order to spread it then supplies the approaches that one/a nation should take in order to overcome these problems. overall this article attacks the problems that media literacy is facing that prevents its expansion but not only does it do that it also gives us many many many ways in which we can approach these problems a fix them, making media literacy a national and one day global ability.

This article talks about how it is essential for young children to be educated in Media Literacy so they can thoroughly evaluate and analyze bias' in this technological age that these kids become increasingly immersed in as the grow older. The author of this article suggests that the education of Media Literacy should be universally implemented into school's curriculums to train these children to become critical thinkers in the Media World

This article highlights the lack of media literacy education in Canada and the need for it. It recaps Canada's 4th annual Media Literacy Week, recounting the calls for improved economic education in this area. In an age where digital media is all around us, this makes a lot of sense for the youth population of Canada who commonly use and create the most digital media. Canadian Teacher's Fund President Mary-Lou Donnelly put it best by saying, "Media and digital literacy are life skills that should be included in the curriculum along with traditional literacy and numeracy skills. Students are not simply users but creators of media. As teachers, we must nurture this creativity while helping them to be engaged and responsible e-citizens." Media literacy education is definitely an important initiative and the fact that Canada is moving to integrate it into its education system is a good sign.