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Dr. Cindy Lont from George Mason University hosts this fast-moving program that features visuals of past and present media as well as interviews with Dr. Maurine Beasley, Sheila Gibbons, and Junior Bridge - all foundational scholars in the field of women and media. The program focuses on four areas: the reclaimed history of women who created media; the media portrayal of women; women's inclusion in the media workforce; and how men perceive media differently...

A short film, like Lost in Time shown here, is a great way of telling your story in a small amount time and with a low budget.

Interviewing someone on camera can be tricky; this video gives you some tips on how to position and frame your interview subjects and how to direct them.

The pictures in our heads that define who we are and help us neatly categorize others are increasingly shaped by the newspaper, magazine, film, and TV images that bombard our senses. To convey a message quickly, these images often rely on stereotypes and primal reflexes that can foster in an audience an inordinate fear of violence, racial and ethnic prejudices, diminished self-worth, and even eating disorders as young women attempt to mimic the look...

It's newspapers, magazines, and books versus blogs, webzines, and e-books in this program as host Jian Ghomeshi addresses issues ranging from the popularity of citizen journalism, to the growing shift in advertiser dollars from print to the Web, to the whole Google Book Search controversy. Multiple points of view are represented by blogosphere luminaries Cory Doctorow and David Pescovitz (Boing Boing), Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Daily Kos), and Heather...

This program explores the history of sexual stereotypes as presented in the media. Film clips, television advertisements and sitcoms, and so-called documentaries from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s show men as domineering masters, and women as their doting subordinates. As a classroom teaching tool, the program encourages discussions regarding the media's continuing role in reinforcing sexual stereotypes, as well as the ongoing sexual biases that nurture...

With the increasing popularity of YouTube, video blogs, Internet-based newscasts, Slingbox, and made-for-mobile content, has the time finally come to turn off the TV? This exploration of whether-or when-nontraditional video will topple commercial television looks at how New Media is changing the way video is both created and consumed. In the process, host Jian Ghomeshi gathers the insights and opinions of former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon; Boing...

George Gerbner, communication scholar, theorist, teacher, poet, and the founder of cultivation theory, discusses his work, which influenced four decades of research on violence and television.

The tiny kingdom of Bhutan is hidden away in the Himalayas and dwarfed by its giant neighbors, India and China. While the rest of the world pounds the treadmill of economic development, Bhutan has continued on its alternative path, pursuing the ultimate goal for its people: happiness. For centuries, its benevolent kings ignored technological advances, seeking to protect their people from outside influences. Then, overnight, 47 satellite stations began...

They have made a diffrerence and revolutionized the world. They come from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe. These remarkable individuals have pioneered, developed, and forever improved their industry and the world in which we live. Engaging and relevant, these individuals will change the way you view the world and remind you that it only takes one person to make a difference. This episode features David Lynch, Steven Spielberg,...