Tag: In English
Children and Video Games Addiction
The dependence from the Internet begins to be with the same problem as the alcoholism or the drug addiction. Today, over 30 millions of people in the World are dependent from the Internet and this number is still increase. More of them are children spend several hours a day in the computer and play the […]
Media Literacy and the LAMP
The idea for my movie began in June, 2009, while attending „Media Conversations VI: an international conference on youth, media, and education” at Fordham University (Lincoln Center) in New York City. There, I was deeply impressed by the LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project) organization and its commitment to teaching basic media language and media production […]
Interactive technology has resulted in greater alienation and control by extending labor into all areas of life
Crows – one of the short stories included in the film Dreams (1991) by Akiro Kurosawa – begins with a man in a museum admiring the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. The man appears to be a painter because he is carrying an easel and a bag with brushes and paints. At first, we see […]
Children and Media Education
“McLuhan heralds the end of print; the Gutenberg galaxy burns itself out. Electric technology can dispense with words, and language can be shunted on the way to universal consciousness… At a certain limit of contemporary vision, language moves towards silence”.[1] Each day, as many people in this word, I have read newspapers, watch TV, listen […]
What a Wonderful World: First Mission to Alamo
People’s eyes watched the big screens showing the latest information about the coming trip to Alamo. New York had transformed. It was not the same city it was 100 years ago. People had been changed by the relentless production of bombs, guns and other military accessories. War was everywhere in the Galaxy. The Defense System […]
Photography of Real Life
The major interest of my life has always been finding truth about the present language of media, man, environment, culture, and new technology. Several memories from my life are the real history which shaped my manner of the vision of this world. In Poland, in the years 1965-1990 you couldn’t get your telephone line installed […]
BOOK REVIEW: „Image Ethics, The Moral Rights of Subject in Photographs, Film, and Television”
BOOK REVIEW: Image Ethics, The Moral Rights of Subject in Photographs, Film, and Television. Edited by Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby, New York, Oxford University Press, Communication and Society. Year: 1988, ISBN 0-19-506780-0. Pages: 382 total. Price: $60. I would like to begin this book review by talking to you about the cover. […]
Joseph Stalin and… my life
One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions, but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism. […]
Media Conversation VI: an international conference on youth, media, and education
Personal notes and reflections about the Conference. Media Conversation VI was held on June 4-6, 2009 in New York at the Pratt Institute and Fordham University at Lincoln Center. One of the panels was held in The Players Club. The following are my reflections about this international conference on youth, media and education. Media Conversation […]
The Concept of Identity and Citizenship In a Globally Mediated World
Globalization due to modern media is the recipient of mixed and strong reactions. For some, globalization is welcomed and embraced; for others, it is rejected and vehemently criticized. Globalization – what it is and how it influences us – is discussed in the press and on radio and television. Experts debate the good and bad […]
