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Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

Carol Arcus and Neil Andersen from the Association for Media Literacy look at 21st Century culture and current events through a media literacy lens. From politics to popular culture, we guarantee that you won't leave an episode thinking quite the same way as you did when you arrived.

GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale

46 mins; February 11, 2026

Happy Media Literacy Week 2025!

38 mins; October 26, 2025

Teacher/Librarians are key Media Literacy advocates & experts

30 mins; October 24, 2025

Early Childhood Media Literacy Education (part 2) ft. Dr. Faith Rogow

38 mins; November 23, 2024

Media Literacy and the Revised Ontario Language Curriculum

39 mins; October 25, 2023

Media Literacy in the Early Years

46 mins; May 26, 2023

GenerativeAI in Education

49 mins; February 23, 2023

A Special Media Literacy Week Edition of Mediacy

44 mins; October 25, 2022

What should media literacy education be now?

46 mins; July 05, 2021

The Business of Digital Marketing- What are its Challenges and Advantages?

34 mins; June 22, 2021

How might watching Let’s-Play videos help children learn from their peers?

40 mins; June 15, 2021

Making is an essential part of media literacy education, but how is it connected to critical thinking?

42 mins; June 08, 2021

Selling Art in the Digital Age- How social media affords freedom, agency, and opportunity to artists who are willing to work for it

52 mins; May 31, 2021

Exploring Critical Media Literacy- What is it, and why is it more important now than ever?

36 mins; May 18, 2021

The Rise of the Podcast- Why are we so fixated on listening to other people talk?

40 mins; May 11, 2021

Cereal Boxes or Artificial Intelligence: What inquiry best serves media literacy students now?

40 mins; May 04, 2021

Notes from The Age of Disinformation, Part Two - How disinformation, audiences, and social media interact to spread conspiracy theories

43 mins; April 30, 2021

Notes from The Age of Disinformation, Part One: How people make meaning from deviant news narratives

32 mins; April 20, 2021

What Will Become of Your Digital Assets When You Die

45 mins; March 31, 2021

Understanding Our Ground Part Two- What is a Classroom Now?

59 mins; March 23, 2021

Understanding Our Ground Part One- What is a Classroom Now?

34 mins; March 22, 2021

Mental Wellness One Year On in the Pandemic

34 mins; March 09, 2021

Google & Facebook vs. Australia & Canada- What Price Democracy?

46 mins; March 03, 2021

Youth, the Pandemic, and Life Online

36 mins; February 23, 2021

Digital Parenting & Teaching- How has the virus pushed us to think differently about learning, work, and parenting?

31 mins; February 09, 2021

The Reality of Parenting for a Digital Future- Grounding Sonia Livingstone’s Work

35 mins; February 03, 2021

Metanarrative, Mittens, and Media- How did the Presidential inauguration reflect the hopes and dreams of America now?

32 mins; January 27, 2021

Parenting for a Digital Future

42 mins; January 19, 2021

The Domestic Terrorism Edition of Mediacy - Taking Figure-Ground into New Territory

33 mins; January 12, 2021

Paying Attention—not Tuning Out—is Key to Media Literacy PT II ft. Julie Nilsson Smith

34 mins; December 14, 2020

Why Paying Attention, not Tuning Out, is key to Media Literacy ft. Julie Nilsson Smith

31 mins; December 08, 2020

The Rise of Joe Biden- Revival of Camelot - or Man of La Mancha?

31 mins; December 01, 2020

The Search for CItizen "Canine"

36 mins; November 24, 2020

Trump (and Biden) Hot and Cold

32 mins; November 23, 2020

Georgia on my Mind

34 mins; November 11, 2020

'Twas the Night Before a U.S. Election

41 mins; November 03, 2020

Navigating New Ground

36 mins; October 27, 2020

Coping through Media Literacy

30 mins; October 20, 2020

Laurie Townshend on Kamala Harris

36 mins; October 13, 2020

Media and the US Election Debates

37 mins; October 07, 2020

The Art of the Mask ft. Irene Faiz

39 mins; September 29, 2020

Unmasking the Mask

32 mins; September 22, 2020

Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris

32 mins; June 30, 2020

Under My Skin

30 mins; June 23, 2020

A Narrative Pivot: from #blacklivesmatter to #defundPolice

36 mins; June 17, 2020

Further Adventures in Interweaving Narratives

34 mins; June 10, 2020

Oh What A Tangled Web

32 mins; June 02, 2020

The Narratives of COVID-19

32 mins; May 27, 2020

Weaving the Story of A Pandemic

31 mins; May 20, 2020

The Pandemic, McLuhan and The Media

33 mins; May 12, 2020

The Pandemic and the Media PT 2

30 mins; May 05, 2020

The Pandemic and the Media

30 mins; April 27, 2020

COVID-19 PT 5 — Continue to Talk to our Children ft. Glenys Vivian

30 mins; April 21, 2020

COVID-19 PT 4 — Continue to Remember the Children ft. Glenys Vivian

32 mins; April 16, 2020

COVID-19 PT 3 —Remember the Children ft. Glenys Vivian

32 mins; April 06, 2020

COVID-19 PT 1

34 mins; April 05, 2020

COVID-19 PT 2

35 mins; April 05, 2020

Mediacy - Mentorship

36 mins; March 13, 2020

Media Literacy is Going to the Dogs

36 mins; March 03, 2020

Medieval Times - A Family Dinner or a Media Literacy Construct

39 mins; February 24, 2020

Payback Time - PT 3 ft. King Cosmos

35 mins; February 19, 2020

Payback Time - PT 2 ft. King Cosmos

41 mins; February 11, 2020

PayBack Time - PT 1 ft King Cosmos

36 mins; February 06, 2020

Hart Pomerantz - Understanding Humour

39 mins; February 01, 2020

Brain Research and Media Literacy Pedagogy PT 2

43 mins; January 21, 2020

Brain Research and Media Literacy Pedagogy

39 mins; January 07, 2020

Screen Time - A Middle School Conversation Part Two

35 mins; December 17, 2019

Screen Time — A Middle School Conversation

33 mins; December 10, 2019

On Podcasting Part II

33 mins; December 03, 2019

On Podcasting

32 mins; November 26, 2019

Parenting in A Digital Age II

37 mins; November 18, 2019

Parenting in a Digital Age Part One

41 mins; November 14, 2019

Canadian Humour II

34 mins; November 07, 2019

Canadian Humour - Part I

33 mins; October 30, 2019

Federal Election 2019 - Greek Theatre for the Modern Age?

37 mins; October 23, 2019

S2 EP 06 Media Literate Elections

34 mins; October 16, 2019

S2 EP 05 Jesse Currell Living Media Literacy PT 2

34 mins; October 10, 2019

S2 EP 04 Jessie Currell - Living Media Literacy PT 1

40 mins; September 30, 2019

S2 EP 03 Shifting Ground

35 mins; September 24, 2019

S2 EP 02: Lil Nas X and Bianca Andreescu—Case Studies

32 mins; September 17, 2019

S2 EP 01 - Retail's Risky Future with Guest Jesse Hirsh

38 mins; September 09, 2019

EP 16 - Old Town Road (Part Two)

37 mins; June 27, 2019

EP 15 - Old Town Road (Part One)

33 mins; June 23, 2019

EP 14 Games - Who? What? Why? PT 3 Neil Andersen and Diana Maliszewski

39 mins; June 04, 2019

EP 13 Games - Who? What? Why? PT 2 Diana Maliszewski and Denise Colby

35 mins; May 28, 2019

EP 12 Games - Who? What? Why? Diana Maliszewski and Denise Colby

43 mins; May 14, 2019

EP 11 The Role of Music in Popular Culture

40 mins; May 07, 2019

EP 10 Fake News

35 mins; April 30, 2019

EP 09 Resistance, Fashion and the 21st Century Adolescent

44 mins; April 23, 2019

EP 08: A Public Service Media with Jesse Hirsh

40 mins; April 16, 2019

EP 07 - Popular Culture I

41 mins; April 09, 2019

EP 06 Identity, Media and Violence

36 mins; April 03, 2019

EP 05 - Violence, Media and Identity

34 mins; March 26, 2019

EP 04 - The Impact of Social Media in World Events

33 mins; March 19, 2019

EP 03 Identity in a Selfie Culture

32 mins; March 12, 2019

EP 02 Thinking about Screen Time

31 mins; March 05, 2019

EP 01 Mapping the Media Literacy Landscape

31 mins; February 25, 2019

Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen

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