What Can I do About Privilege?
First of all, you can’t choose to give up privilege – privilege is by definition an unearned advantage and you cannot choose to not have it. Guilt and shame are not, however, productive ways to deal with this.
Corporate Partnerships
Our corporate partners help us achieve our vision of empowering people to engage with all forms of media confidently and critically.
Common Stereotypes of Men in Media
Various media analysts and researchers argue that media portrayals of male characters fall within a range of stereotypes.
Masculinity and Sports Media
Sports media also contributes to the construction of masculinity in contemporary society.
Technological Education 9-10
Strands in the Technological Education curriculum
The overall and specific expectations for each course in the technological education curriculum are typically organized in four distinct but related strands. The strands are Fundamentals; Skills; Technology, the Environment, and Society; and Professional Practice and Career Opportunities.
The Grade Nine and Ten curriculum document Technological Education includes information on how media literacy is relevant to the content of these courses:
Mathematics
The Nova Scotia mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education topics. In particular, numerous courses have expectations relating to probability, which can be applied to representations of probability in media, and to bias in how data is collected and represented.
English Language Arts
The Nova Scotia English language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. These are found throughout the three strands: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
Videos: 2025
The following fact-checking videos have been produced by teens for teens. The viral claims they chose to fact-check touch on a range of topics from the environment, health, science and food to beauty products, social media trends and even presumed “weird” local bylaws that caught their attention.
Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues
Women professionals and athletes continue to be under-represented in news coverage, and are often stereotypically portrayed when they are included.
Women Working in the Media
Since the 1960s, feminists have argued that "it matters who makes it." When it comes to the mass media, "who makes it" continues to be men.