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Marketing & Consumerism - Special Issues for Young Children

Parents of young children have an important role to play in protecting their kids from invasive marketing and in educating them about advertising from an early age.

Marketing & Consumerism

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Geography CGR4E: Living in a Sustainable World

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Geography CGR4E: Living in a Sustainable World, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Alberta - COM3105: AV Preproduction 2

COM3105: AV Preproduction 2

1. identify and describe the components, goals and challenges of preproduction

1.1 analyze professionally developed production plans; e.g., story concept, storyboard, shot list, script

1.2 examine the considerations of a production plan; e.g., time line with key benchmarks, cost, sequence, equipment, creation of mood, human resources, on-location/studio-based requirements and permissions

National Study Shows that 71 Per Cent of Youth Who Witnessed Cyberbullying Intervened

(November 16, 2015) New research conducted by TELUS WISE in partnership with MediaSmarts and PREVNet has found that youth believe cyberbullying is wrong and are motivated to intervene when they witness it, but would be more likely to do so if adults provided better guidance on managing interventions and were more responsive when incidents were brought to their attention. The research sought to better understand the factors that influence whether or not youth speak up when they witness cyberbullying and their perspectives on how to intervene. The findings provide cause for optimism and highlight the need for adults to support young people's desire to responsibly intervene when they observe cyberbullying.

Media and Girls

They have ads of how you should dress and what you should look like and this and that, and then they say, 'but respect people for what they choose to be like.' Okay, so which do we do first?"

Kelsey, 16, quoted in Girl Talk

Gender Representation, Stereotyping

Online Sexual Predators

The nature of online sexual exploitation is widely misunderstood: “Instead of pedophiles (ie individuals with sexual interests in children) preying on young children, most Internet-initiated sex crimes involve young adults (mostly men) who target and seduce teenagers into sexual encounters.” Similarly, child sexual abuse material is most frequently produced by victims’ family members, with fathers being the single most common perpetrators. Even in cases of sextortion, 60 percent of youth who are victims know the perpetrators offline.

Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Sexual Exploitation