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Media Awareness Network is currently working at limited capacity due to a recent fire in our office building. As a result, we only have intermittent access to our phones and e-mail. If you need to contact us, you can do so through our emergency e-mail account: mediaawarenessnetwork@hotmail.com. We will do our best to respond to your inquiry in a timely fashion.
Pioneer Broadcaster Rita Deverelle Honoured
Media Awareness Network congratulates board member Rita Shelton Deverell on recieving the 2010 Leadership Award from the
Black Women's Civic Engagement Network. This award is presented annually to an individual who has advocated on behalf of issues affecting Black women and whose hard work, excellence, professionalism and service has made a difference in the lives of women.
Rita is well-deserving of this honour. Among her many achievements, she was the first woman to lead a journalism program in Canada, co-founder and Vice President of Production for Vision TV, the world's first multifaith and multicultural network and head of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. An inductee into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame and recipient of the Order of Canada, Rita currently holds the "Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies" at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Congratulations Rita!
Alien versus predator
When Marlene Kane's sixteen-year-old son Andrew asked her to drive him to the nearby town of Midland last December, she was surprised to hear that he wanted to meet with someone he had met while playing the online game World of Warcraft – and even more surprised to learn that the person he was meeting was a 42-year-old mother of four from Texas. Experts on sexual solicitation of youth online were less shocked however. In fact, for them the only surprising thing was Lauri Price's sex. Everything else about the scenario – how they made contact, Price's openness about her age, Andrew's willingness to meet her, and the lack of deception about her intentions – all fit the evolving picture of how youth are sexually exploited online.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, aims to focus attention on the problems of racism and the need to promote racial harmony. Media Awareness Network (MNet) has a number of resources that help children and youth explore the ways that ethnic and visible minorities are portrayed in the media, and understand the impact of media stereotypes. Check out MNet’s backgrounder on Media Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities, as well as the following resources:
Media Education In Canada
Want to know the curricular outcomes for media literacy in your province or territory? Looking for lessons that support these outcomes? MNet has prepared comprehensive curriculum charts for Grades K-12 that highlight media education outcome requirements in each province and territory, and paired them with supporting MNet resources. Access them by region.
Overview | British Columbia | Alberta | Saskatchewan
Manitoba | Ontario | Quebec | New Brunswick
Nova Scotia | P.E.I. | Newfoundland and Labrador
Nunavut | Northwest Territories | Yukon
