Screenwise

by Devorah Heitner

Author	: Devorah Heitner
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 256
Release	: 2016-10-04
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1351817833

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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children-if parents help them. Using the foundation of their own values and experiences, parents and educators can learn about the digital world to help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. Screenwise is a guide to understanding more about what it is like for children to grow up with technology, and to recognizing the special challenges-and advantages-that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. In it, Heitner presents practical parenting "hacks": quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The book will empower parents to recognize that the wisdom that they have gained throughout their lives is a relevant and urgently needed supplement to their kid's digital savvy, and help them develop skills for managing the new challenges of parenting. Based on real-life stories from other parents and Heitner's wealth of knowledge on the subject, Screenwise teaches parents what they need to know in order to raise responsible digital citizens.

Censored 2020

by Andy Lee Roth

Author	: Andy Lee Roth
Publisher	: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages	: 257
Release	: 2019-10-08
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1609809610

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In the midst of Trump's attacks on the media, comes this look at the rigorous, independent reporting of the year's most underreported news stories. While the country's president displays a brazen disregard for the First Amendment and routinely demonizes the press as "the enemy of the people," Censored 2020 looks beyond Donald Trump's dizzying contempt for the truth to clarify the corporate media's complicity in misinforming the American public--while also providing a clear vision of a better future, based on rigorous, trustworthy independent reporting that presents a fuller picture of truth. With a discerning eye, Censored 2020 focuses the public's attention on the most important but underreported news stories of 2018-2019. These stories expose the corporate news media's systemic blind spots while highlighting the crucial role played by independent journalists in providing the kind of news necessary for informed, engaged citizens. The book also examines this year's lowlights in "junk food news" and "news abuse"--further revealing how corporate news often functions as propaganda--as well as highlights of exemplary organizations that champion "Media Democracy in Action." Additional chapters address the importance of constructive journalism, the untold story of Kashmir, news coverage of LGBTQ issues in the Trump era, "fake news" as a Trojan horse for censorship, and online memes as a form of political communication.

Taking Privacy Seriously

by James B. Rule

Author	: James B. Rule
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Total Pages	: 325
Release	: 2024
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 0520382625

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Other books remind us of what we already know--that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. What a privacy-deprived America needs most is not less technology, Rule argues, but profound political realignment. His eleven proposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal data system not required by law; to creating a universal property right over commercial exploitation of data on oneself--so that no company or other organization could profit from use or sale of such data without permission. Succinct and compelling, Taking Privacy Seriously explains how we can refashion information technologies so that they serve human needs, not the other way around.

Introduction to Adam Demos

by Gilad James, PhD

Author	: Gilad James, PhD
Publisher	: Gilad James Mystery School
Total Pages	: 44
Release	:
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 2584523817

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Parenting Generation Screen

by Jonathan McKee

Author	: Jonathan McKee
Publisher	: Focus on the Family
Total Pages	: 209
Release	: 2021-08-03
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1684283256

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What Every Parent Needs to Know about Screens and Their Kids Maybe your kids are like many others―glued to their smartphones, social media, and streaming entertainment. While we may be aware that excessive screen time, especially social media, isn’t healthy, how do we teach young kids and teens to become screenwise? Prioritizing connection over correction, Parenting Generation Screen is a guide for parents that will equip you with key questions and conversations to help you process screen limits with and for your kids. You’ll learn how to dialogue in meaningful ways about social media, entertainment, and screen time so your children can learn to be wise in the digital world. Jonathan McKee speaks worldwide and writes about technology and social media for families―and has three kids of his own. In Parenting Generation Screen, he addresses such questions as: At what age should my child get a phone or screen?Can my child have a phone in their bedroom?How does social media affect my teenager’s mental health and sleep?What dangers are really lurking on social media?How can moms and dads best use parental controls? In this extremely practical book, you’ll gain confidence and find the answers you need to set boundaries, guide your kids, and help them navigate the digital landscape.

Parenting for a Digital Future

by Sonia M. Livingstone

Author	: Sonia M. Livingstone
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 273
Release	: 2020
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0190874694

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In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive and diverse qualitative and quantitative research with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterize parenting in late modernity, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent or support. They chart how parents often enact authority and values through digital technologies since "screen time," games, and social media have become both ways of being together and of setting boundaries. Parenting for a Digital Future moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.

The Upside of Digital Devices

by Nicole Dreiske

Author	: Nicole Dreiske
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 253
Release	: 2018-05-01
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 0757320465

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Your #1 Resource to Improve Remote Learning Help your children thrive and avoid the "COVID slide" by setting them up for focused and engaged learning at home. Yes, it is possible to bring the energy and enthusiasm of the classroom into your living room through your child's computer screen. With techniques endorsed by educators nationwide, The Upside of Digital Devices is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and home-schoolers. It shares quick exercises, techniques, and tips that have been PROVEN to boost focus and learning within 60 seconds. By engaging both the brain and the body, the ideas and activities in the book help children of every age to develop the skills they need to succeed in e-learning. E-Learning expert and author Nicole Dreiske is the founder and director of the International Children's Media Center, a non-profit pioneer in transforming the way kids view, use, and engage electronic screens for positive learning outcomes. She will help you discover: Brain/body exercises and articulation activities that instantly boost energy, self-regulation and concentration. Handplay movements to keep kids calm and focused. Tips to instill children with empathy, patience, and compassion while viewing digital media. Evidence-based activities that channel students’ energy into positive learning outcomes. Fun ways to improve literacy, vocabulary, and critical thinking. And more!

Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2021

by Mickey Huff

Author	: Mickey Huff
Publisher	: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages	: 195
Release	: 2020-12-01
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1644210274

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The new and improved "Censored," detailing the top censored stories and media analysis of 2020. Our nation's oldest news-monitoring group, Project Censored, refreshes its longstanding yearbook series, Censored, with State of the Free Press 2021. This edition offers a more succinct and comprehensive survey of the most important but underreported news stories of 2020; in addition to a comparative analysis of the current state of corporate and independent news media, and its effect on democracy. The establishment media sustains a decrepit post-truth era, as examined the lowlight features: "Junk Food News"-frivolous stories that distract the public from actual news-and-"News Abuse"-important stories covered in ways that undermine public understanding. The alternative media provokes a burgeoning critical media literacy age, as evaluated in the highlight feature: "Media Democracy in Action"-relevant stories responsibly reported on by independent organizations. Finally, in an homage to the history of the annual report, the editors reinstate the "Déjà vu News" feature-revisited stories from previous editions. State of the Free Press 2021 endows readers with the critical thinking and media literacy skills required to hold the corporate media to account for distorting or censoring news coverage, and thus, to revitalize our democracy.

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

by Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf

Author	: Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 330
Release	: 2008
Genre	: Science
ISBN	: 0415383811

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This book examines how visual media influences public perceptions of science and scientific research in the current context of growing public anxiety about the social impact of that research.