Have you ever sat down to watch TV with a kid and, after telling yourself you’d only stay for a few minutes, you instead found yourself laughing and wanting to watch ‘til the end? Well, you’re not alone. Humor is an important part of children’s media. Learn how...
What Should We Believe In the Age of AI? The Korean Cultural Foundation is holding an event in partnership with Temple University, focusing on youth and assessing AI. This free, one-day event will offer hands-on experience for approximately 40-50 local high...
October Event: FREE, FAIR, AND FACTUAL: HOW LOCAL NEWS STRENGTHENS OUR ELECTIONS A discussion focused on the important role local news stations have in delivering accurate information during elections. Date: October 1, 2026 Presenter: Free Press Contact: Free...
The 2026 UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week is an annual event, held the last week of October. MIL week brings together communities around the world to recognize the importance of media and information literacy and explore innovative ways to strengthen...
Deadline to apply is October 9th, 2026! If interested, please apply using this link. Join us this spring for Children's Media: On Location, a seven-week (7B) course taking students behind the scenes of the children’s media industry in Philadelphia and Los Angeles....
The CMIL is partnering with researchers from Australia Catholic University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, Western Sydney University, and the University of Edinburgh, on a research study titled, “Artificial Intelligence for the Early Years”…
On December 3rd, 2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., five students presented their capstone projects for the Certificate in Children’s Media in Tuttleman Hall, Room 305B. Eleanor Erdley, Cadence Webb, Kyle Lapsley, Delia Joyce, and Ollie Gomez each applied the skills...
During UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week Feature Conference in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, CMIL Director Sherri Hope Culver participated in two sessions that highlighted global progress in media literacy, AI education, and youth-centered cinema. The event brought together leaders from around the world to explore how media and information literacy continues to evolve in an increasingly complex digital environment…
The Children’s Media Professionals of Philly met up once again and it was exciting to bring everyone back together! This meet-up was for professionals to connect, catch up, network, and share what they have been working on…
The 2025 Philippines National Media and Information Literacy Conference will be held on Nov. 7-8, 2025 at the John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University, Arevalo, Iloilo City. This will be organized by JBLFMU Molo and Arevalo campuses, PUP College of Communication and Trinity University of Asia-Media and Communication Department. Sherri Hope Culver, CMIL director will be presenting a keynote on…
If you’ve ever tried negotiating screen time with a child or teenager, you know it’s basically an extreme sport. Media, games… technology doesn’t just live in our homes—it practically runs the place! But what if, instead of just fighting the screens, we learned to live smarter with them?
We all recognize it when we see it, or hear it, or read it, but what truly makes content high-quality? The Department of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University invited the Children’s Media Association and the National Association for Media Literacy Education for CMA’s first ever…
2025 is flying by! We’re excited to share news about a few recent projects and give a glimpse into what’s ahead…
Trust Me is a feature-length documentary and media literacy educational program that explores manipulation and misinformation. The documentary contains interviews with many experts in the field of media literacy, including…