Media Literacy Week: A Survival Skill – October 12 - 18, 2008
October 12-18, 2008 marks the second annual Media Literacy Week, hosted by the Gateway Media Literacy Partners. This event is designed to promote media literacy in the St. Louis region.
The theme of the event is "Media Literacy as Survival Skill." Increasingly, information is being brought to us by (and through) the channels of mass communication. Media literacy is a critical thinking skill that provides strategies that enable individuals to make sense out of media interpret media messages and develop an independence from what they are receiving through the channels of mass communication.
This year’s Keynote Speaker is Frank Baker, an internationally renowned media literacy scholar and educator. His Keynote Address is “The Role of the Media In The Political Process.”
Other Media Literacy Week activities includes the following:
Sunday, Oct. 12
Event: GMLP Second Annual Media Literacy Week Kick-off
Location: Sunnen Lounge, Webster University, Webster Groves, MO 63119
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30
Description Proclamations presented; GMLP's Charles Klotzer Media Literacy Awards: We'll introduce Organization and Individual winners; Continental breakfast
Free to the Public!
Monday, Oct. 13
Event: Stigma, Media and Health
Location: Katherine Dunham Hall, room 2007 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL 62026
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Description: Research Presentation: Mediated Madness: Stigma, Media and Mental Illness, Dr Gary Hicks, Graduate Program Director, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Followed by: Screening: Selling Children: How media affects kids. Tom Atwood, Independent videographer.
Contact information: Patrick Murphy, pmurphy@siue.edu
Free to the Public!
Tuesday, Oct. 14
Event: reCONNECTING with the Cool: Art, Architecture, and Jazz of 1950s California
Location: To watch these programs live via the web, surf your computer to
http://www.roundtrips.org or http://www.hectv.org on the program day and click on the LIVE link. The program will also be shown live in the St. Louis metropolitan area on HEC-TV, channel 26.
Time: 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, and 1:00 pm
Description: The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University—in collaboration with HEC-TV and their interactive program HEC-TV Live!—is kicking off a set of FREE interactive web-streaming learning programs in conjunction with the fall exhibition Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury. Teachers in grades 6-12 are invited to sign-up their classes in advance and connect in a “virtual field trip” to the Kemper Art Museum for programs offered at 10am, 12pm, and 1pm (CDT). The 60-minute programs offered at 10am and 1pm will focus on the e role of the visual arts such as painting and photography in the larger cultural context of “cool” that formed in California during the 1950s, drawing in aspects of architecture, film, and jazz to support cross-disciplinary thinking about concepts of a “cool” aesthetic or style that remains relevant today. The special 30-minute program offered at 12pm will focus on a media literacy approach to the cultural style of “cool,” taking an in-depth and critical look at commercial advertising and culture in the 1950s and today. To enroll in this program, contact HEC-TV Live! At live@hectv.org or call 314-531-4455.
Contact information:**To learn more about the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, or for more information about these special programs, visit their homepage at kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu, or contact Michael Murawski at murawski@wustl.edu or 314-935-7918.
Free to the Public!
Event: HEC-TV Presents “I Love Jazz” Live from the Kemper Art Museum
Location: Kemper Art Museum
Time: 7:00 p.m. -8:00 pm
Description: Presented in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum’s Birth of the Cool exhibition, this 60-minute program will showcase the “cool jazz” and “cool” aesthetics that epitomized 1950s California, including live jazz performances in the galleries, interviews with local musicians and jazz experts, and a look at some of the painting, architecture, and photography that defined this era of “cool.” Hosted by locally renowned jazz authority and radio host Don Wolff along with HEC-TV Live’s Tim Gore. To watch this program live via the web, surf your computer to
http://www.roundtrips.org or www.hectv.org on the program day and click on the LIVE link. The program will also be shown live in the St. Louis metropolitan area on HEC-TV, channel 26.
Contact information:**To learn more about the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, or for more information about these special programs, visit their homepage at kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu, or contact Michael Murawski at murawski@wustl.edu or 314-935-7918.
Free to the Public!
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Event: GMLP and Denmark Reunion has been rescheduled.
Location: TBA
Time: TBA
Description: Danish and St. Louis-area Social Studies students will hook up with each other to discuss the USA's presidential election and media literacy topics. This is a continuation of a relationship that began in January when a Danish delegation, comprising journalists and educators, came to St. Louis to meet GMLP and discuss stereotyping in the media, and other media literacy topics.
Free to the Public!
Event: Video Game Nation: An Insight Into Gaming Culture
Location: Young Hall Auditorium, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri, 63301
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Description: Panel Discussion. Presenters: Justin Sigoloff, Andrew Smith, Tim Meyer
Contact info: Jill Falk, JFalk@lindenwood.edu
Free to the Public!
Thursday Oct. 16
Event: “Idiocracy: Satire or Horror Film?”
Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo 63119
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Admission is $6; $5 for Students; $4 for Webster Faculty, Free for WU Students.
Description: Film/Panel Discussion, Moderator, Art Silverblatt, Webster University. Panel: Kathy Corley, Webster University, Aaron AuBuchon, Webster University and Patrick Murphy, KETC . “Idiocracy: Satire or Horror Film?” Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive. (Internet Movie Database:imdb.com) The film, starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, was written and directed by Mike Judge, who is most famous as the creator of "Beavis and Butthead."
Friday Oct. 17
Event: Moderated panel on "Media Literacy and Political Media,"
Location: Webster University Student Center
Time: 8:30-10:30
Description: Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis and GMLP present a moderated panel on the topic of “Media and Politics: Campaign 2008.” The panel includes Governor Bob Holden, Art Silverblatt, Webster University, and Frank Baker, author of "Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide." A lively discussion regarding critical thinking skills when it comes to media's 24/7 presentation of political news, advertising and opinion.
Event: Keynote Speaker, Frank Baker
Location: Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo 63119
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Description: Keynote Address - The Role of the Media In The Political Process. From radio to television to the Internet, the media are a big part of the political process, especially in the 2008 election cycle. Join national media educator Frank Baker for this look at the past and present of media in politics. Baker, a national media literacy expert, manages the national Media Literacy Clearinghouse web page, www.frankwbaker.com and is author of the forthcoming book "Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide."
Free to the Public!
Event: Informal Media Literacy Conversations
Location: Starbuck's, 9820 Clayton Road, Ladue
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Description Join nationally recognized media literacy educators, Frank Baker, and GMLP president, Jessica Brown, for a coffee break, and lively conversation! We'd like to hear what you're doing or want to do with media literacy in your bailiwick!
Free to the Public!
Saturday, Oct. 18
Event: Academic Symposium
Location: Webster University, Webster Groves, Sverdrup building rooms 254 and 260
Time: 9:00-10:15 a.m. and 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Description: Graduate and undergraduate students from the St. Louis region will be presenting papers (with accompanying media) that analyze media and media presentations. There will be two sessions, 9:00-10:15 a.m. and 10:30-11:45 a.m. One strand consists of media literacy scholarship. The second strand of presentations consists of media literacy pedagogy: the teaching of media literacy.
Free to the Public!
Event: Frank Baker‘s Teacher Workshop
Location: Library Conference Room, Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo 63119
Time: 12:00 – 1:00
Description: Saturday's Workshop (1 hour ) The Role of Media In The Political Process: A Hands-on, Interactive Teacher Workshop. Teachers are invited for this in-depth look at the role of the media in the 2008 presidential election. Emphasis will be on media literacy and critical thinking about media messages. The presenter is Frank Baker, a national media literacy expert, who manages the national Media Literacy Clearinghouse web page, www.frankwbaker.com and author of the forthcoming book "Political Campaigns and Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide."
Free to the Public!
For further information regarding Media Literacy Week, contact Art Silverblatt - art.silverblatt@gmail.com
