Here are some websites for the above organization:

so, great class…fun, open, informed, and participatory…very cool for a summer class.  it is amazing how much media is in our veins…our students’ veins…our consciousness and formation of our knowledges.  it is hegemonically in the dominant culture’s interest to keep us media illiterate…perhaps that is why media literacy is not on education syllabii, in core curricula, and on our radar.  how different would a critical media curriculum be?  we would not have to alter our content, merely add another lens in which to read media. Freire advocates us to teach our children and youth to read the world–that reading the word is not enough–being functionally literate is still being culturally illiterate.

Topic: Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture
Who: Dr. Shirley Steinberg
When: Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Where: Scarfe Room 310, University of British Columbia, Vancouver