Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h7SHxL723697; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:59:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:59:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20030828175746.55430.qmail@web10204.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: sarah bassuk <s_bassuk@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1645] Re: media literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 36 Hello. I find this to be very interesting but when I go to the website I cannot seem to open any ads. Can you give me some instructions on how to open the ads under discussion. Thanks, Sarah --- Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.EDU> wrote: > A colleague has sent me a link to a set of print and > television ads > developed by the AdCouncil, and online at > http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/fam_lit/ > > I find the messages conveyed in these ads to be > disturbing, > condescending and lacking any sense of recognizing > the many strengths > and abilities that adults and families possess - > regardless of their > fluency with literacy. > > Seems to me that an analysis of these ads would > provide an > interesting starting point for intergenerational > literacy > practitioners and learners -- who are the people > represented in these > ads? What are the ads trying to convince the > viewer/consumer to do? > Why are particular locations featured in the ads? > What choices were > made about verbal, musical and visual communication? > > What do others think? > > Janet Isserlis
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