Video Contest Winners

Congratulations to the 2013 Our Media, Your Business Video Contest winners!

High School, 1st place

“A New Way to Terrorize” by Shelley Clark

College, 1st place

“Children’s Media Literacy” by Nathan Webber, Melissa Helgeson, and Eduardo Coelho of Whitworth University

Winners will be honored at an awards ceremony at Gonzaga University. Thank you for participating!

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SpokAnnie: ‘Half the Sky’ upholds girls education worldwide

On April 19, the NW-ARM held a film screening of Half the Sky. Topics covered were sex trafficking in Cambodia and the empowerment of women through economics in Kenya. Along with showing portions of the film, there was a panel of several scholarly women. A journalist from the Gonzaga Bulletin wrote a story about the event.

SpokAnnie: ‘Half the Sky’ upholds girls’ education worldwide

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A quote from Jennifer Lawrence that says it all…

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As a culture, how can we change the representation of women in film?

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NW-ARM NEWSLETTER – Spring 2013

It is finally here! The Spring 2013 Newsletter! We hope you enjoy the content of the issue, and we hope it creates awareness of media influence in our community and attracts you to attend some of our future events.

We appreciate your loyalty to Media Literacy!

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Is YOUR Freedom of Assembly Under Threat?

Join Gonzaga’s Communication and Leadership Studies in welcoming COML Visiting Scholar In Residence, Dr. Todd Gitlin on Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m., Gonzaga University Campus, Jundt Museum, Room 110.

Free and Open to Public!

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Dr. Gitlin lectures frequently on culture, politics, social movements, and media in the United States and abroad. He is now a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in Communications at Columbia University. He was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstrations against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Brief Bio of Dr. Todd Gitlin:

Dr. Gitlin, is now a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in Communications at Columbia University. He was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstrations against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa. He is the author of fifteen books, including, most recently, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall StreetThe Chosen Peoples:  America, Israel, and The Ordeals of Divine Election (with Leil Loeibowvitz), and The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals. He has contributed to many books and published widely in general periodicals (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Globe, Dissent, The New Republic, The Nation, Wilson Quarterly, Harper’s, American Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, The American ProspectThe Occupied Wall Street Journal, LA Review of Books, Washington Spectator, et al.) He is a regular contributor to Chronicle of Higher EducationThe New Republic, and TPMcafe.com.

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“Half the Sky” Viewing – March 19, 2013

Please join us, in partnership with Gonzaga University Communication and Leadership Studies, for a viewing of “Half the Sky.” The PBS series, filmed in Cambodia, Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Liberia, and the United States, follows women and girls living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable, and fighting to change them.

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More information:
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National Day of UNPLUGGING


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Take a pledge and UNPLUG from the technological stresses of our day-to-day life. In the next couple days lets pledge to UNPLUG from nonsensical things! Visit the following link to learn more about National Day of UNPLUGGING: 
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Here is what some of our faculty, staff and student at Gonzaga University are pledging to UNPLUG from:

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Speaking Up is a Very Brave Act

Amy Goodman makes an important statement about one’s role of reporting and covering stories. The jounalist have a “moral responsibility” to to protect whistleblowers named in news reports because they are taking a risk by speaking up.

The Northwest Alliance for Responsible Media is committed to promoting responsible media and media coverage.

“Speaking up is a Very Brave Act” -Amy Goodman

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Fighting media with media

NW-ARM has used this blog to discuss problems such as cyberbullying and privacy concerns associated with the explosion of technology that has allowed increasing numbers of us to become “media producers” as well as “media users.” YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, cell phone cameras and other innovations that didn’t even exist a few years ago (even Facebook and YouTube are less than a decade old) have changed our media world.

Some of the change has been harmful, much of it trivial. But much of it also has been (or could be beneficial), which is largely why we’re sponsoring the student video contest advertised in the post at the top of this page. Those of us who care about both the effects of media and our First Amendment protections recognize that sometimes the way to fight bad media is with the use of good media. The following video is offered with that in mind:

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An Intimate Conversation with Rick Steves

Join the NW-ARM this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2pm at Gonzaga University’s Cataldo Hall, Globe Room for an intimate conversation with Rick Steves.

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