Media Literacy: Media Representation
This guide provides an overview of media literacy topics.
Representation
- Critical Media ProjectCritical Media Project (CMP) is a free media literacy web resource for educators and students (ages 8-21) that enhances young people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity.
CMP has a two-fold mission:
- To raise critical awareness and provide the tools to decode media representations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic class, religion, age, and disability, and develop an understanding as to how these identities intersect
- To encourage and offer guidance for students to tell their own stories, create their own representations, and uphold their status as active and engaged participants in civic society.
Representation in Hollywood
- Hollywood Diversity Report 2018Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
- Inequality in 1,100 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, LGBT & Disability from 2007 to 2017Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at USC Annenberg