Eight months from now, we'll be in the midst of Summit 2000.
For those who don't know about it - Summit 2000: Children, Youth and the
Media: Beyond the Millennium will take place in Toronto, Canada May 13-17,
2000. It's an international conference bringing together those who work in
media education and the media professionals who make the screen based media
products which we talk about. For more information see the web site
(www.summit2000.net)
Update:
1: With all practical workshops, panels, academic papers, master classes
and case studies now set we have:
- 135 Media Education presentations from 33 countries.
- 70 Academic papers from 24 countries
- 70 media professionals' presentations from 25 countries.
2: Topics covered include issues of representation, ownership,
commercialism in the schools, values, analysis of individual shows,
pitching stories and products, media violence, marketing, financing, pop
music, pop culture, race, reality in movies, co-production, humour, at
least 20 presentations in the area of new media - internet, digital
technology etc. and many many many more.
3: At the end of September, descriptions for all these presentations and
the presenters will be posted on the Summit web site.
4: There will be at least 15 presentations in French, and 15 in Spanish.
5: There will be built into the presentations, a series of special
workshops as part of Introductory Courses for teachers at the Elementary
level and at the Secondary level.
6: The Registration Booklet will be available in early November. It will
be mailed out to all who have requested it - if your name is on the NMEC
list from the St. Paul Conference you will automatically be sent one. If
you wish a Registration Booklet mailed to you, please send me your snail
mail address.
Registration will be limited to 1,500.
Maybe we should offer a prize to anyone who can guess the topic of the
workshop entitled: "From Xena's Lips to Ricky Martin's Hips".
Cheers,
John
John J. Pungente, SJ
Jesuit Communication Project
1002 - 60 St. Clair Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4T 1N5
Phone: (416) 515-0466 extension 224
Fax: (416) 515-0467
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JCP Home Page: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/index.html
Please check out information on SUMMIT 2000 to be held May 13-17, 2000 in
Toronto. An international gathering of media professionals and media
educators from all over the world. Not to be missed at
http://www.summit2000.net
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