This episode was recorded in Manchester, England at the University of Salford. https://vimeo.com/773406549 Every month it seems there is another report telling us how many hours of video games children play, or how many hours of TikTok they’re scrolling through, or...
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Ep. 61- Media literacy in Brasil
Recorded in Brasil with two journalists and discussing media education. https://vimeo.com/764616141 This episode of Media Inside Out is a first! It is the first time we have recorded an episode outside of the United States. Please join Sherri and her guests Alexandre...
Positioning Media and Information Literacy on the International Development Agenda in the Post-Pandemic World
This session will initiate a dialogue on the development of an international multi-stakeholder framework for private/digital platforms to promote media and information literacy. We aim to demonstrate how multi-stakeholder cooperation can work with private sector...
Global Media & Information Literacy Week Oct. 26
The eighth annual global celebration of Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week will take place from 26 to 31 October 2020. The theme for this year is titled, “Resisting Disinfodemic: Media and Information Literacy for everyone and, by everyone”. Global MIL...
Children’s Media Career Symposium: April 15, 2020
Join the Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple University for the third Children's Media Career Symposium. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm at the Klein College of Media and Communication, one of the top...
Summer 2020 Media Academy in Greece
Join us in Greece in Summer 2020 for the International Media Summer Academy! Today, accurate information is an increasingly critical resource for our understanding of the world. Building on the success of the 2019 Summer School, we are looking forward to welcoming...
Media Literacy GenEd Now Available!
Join Professor Sherri Hope Culver for the course "Media in a hyper-mediated world" (KLN 0873). This course fulfills the Human Behavior GenEd requirement. The Internet-fueled democratization of media* creation has enabled anyone to be a publisher and has given...
Episode 42: Government Regulations and the Media Industry
At a time in which the ways we consume media have been changing rapidly, how much do we want the government to help support media industry growth or determine media industry restrictions? These questions are not some purely academic exercise. The answers affect what...
Episode 39: Celebrity Culture & Politics
https://vimeo.com/301280210 In recent years, celebrities have become increasingly vocal about their positions on various political topics. It’s a celebrity’s job to build believability with their audience and more celebrities are using that connected relationship to...
Report from the Children’s Media Career Symposium
Students and early career professionals spent a wonderful spring evening at Temple University’s Annenberg Hall for the Children’s Media Career Symposium Thursday, April 12, 2018.
Sherri’s blog updates
Sherri's blog explores topical issues relating to children's media and media literacy. The blog is available at www.sherrihopeculver.com Topics have included: -media as mirror: representations of difference -media coverage of the US presidential campaign -explicit...
Media Literacy Week 2016
We're gearing up for this year's Media Literacy Week! This will be the 2nd Annual Media Literacy Week hosted by the National Association for Media Literacy Education from October 31 to November 4, 2016. For more details please visit: https://medialiteracyweek.us/ and...
NAMLE Free Membership
More media literacy resources and now free membership– with NAMLE
The New Barbie: Can a change on the outside make a change on the inside?
I didn’t play with dolls much growing up. Even as a kid I was more likely to be gathering friends in my garage to act in my latest directorial creation than inventing storylines with plastic, motionless dolls. But, I’ve grown up to be someone deeply curious about the...
Episode 14: Gamification
https://vimeo.com/121791514 Video games have moved from being categorized as simply a recreational activity, to include a wide range of creative, often educational and often money-making media platform. Gamification, the term for this movement, has deep implications...