@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 Sender: Parveez Syed <•••@••.•••> Subject: Mass Media, Education and Values Tuesday 27 February 1996, London-UK Hello: The MASS MEDIA, EDUCATION and VALUES Can you help me prepare a paper on "The Mass media, Education and Values". The seminar is intended to explore the values conveyed to young people by their every day exposing to the bewildering variety of attitudes and assumptions presented by the mass media. I would like to explain how an education in values might help them (people or mass media consumers) interpret and to become critically aware of these influences on their lives, and to explain how the potentiality for good in the mass media might be more profitably exploited through education and its more destructive and harmful elements alleviated. I am particularly interested in explaining and presenting the educational contribution that any mainstream religion can make in these areas both by its contribution to and also its critique of the often confused and contradictory values by the mass media. Here is a brief I have prepared. Can you help add soundbites? Our is an age dominated by the mass media. Its influence is all pervasive. Television, radio and videos, newspapers and the like surround us with their images and sounds. Their values and slogans form an invasive and intrusive accompaniment to our lives. Soundbites shape our attitudes to social affairs. Our standards and tastes, and especially those of the young, can all to easily be transformed by the immediacy and power of the messages conveyed by the moderns means of communications. Yet we are not merely passive receipients, easy prey to those who weild these instruments of propaganda. We can exercise choice and learn discrimination. The power of critical reflection, of protest where necessary, and the ability to participate in the public debate over what is or is not acceptable remains within our grasp. Education may seem a punny instrument when compared to the immensely powerful technological marvels represented by modern mass media. But its influence and importance should not be underestimated. It is by education that these powers of critical reflection can be developed and grow. So, the presentation paper would discuss / cover: Mass media values (internal and external) Portrayal of values in the mass media Portrayal of any religious values in religion programmes Valuing children in the mass media Children and violence in the mass media The value of violence in the mass media Children and violence in the mass media Marriage and family in the mass media The attitude to sex in the mass media Developing a critique of mass media values (internal and external) My target closing date for the paper is before 16 March 1996. >---------- So, can you help? Would you also like to take part? Please advise. Thank you. Kind regards Parveez Syed ----------------------------------------------------------------- Parveez Syed's direct contact details are: One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Tel: London-UK 44-0831-196693; Fax/tel: 44-0181-665 0384 E-Mail INTERNET: •••@••.••• ----------------------------------------------------------------- Food for thought?: "In politics, as in the snake oil business, it pays to have a short memory and a chameleon-like quality. That is why the relationship between a journalist and a politician should be like the one between a dog and a lamp-post". But who is doing what to whom? One wonders ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Editor: Of course you've read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", but have you read Parenti's "Make Believe Media" and "Inventing Reality"? -rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore - •••@••.••• - Wexford, Ireland Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore/cyberlib Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
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