• "Teachers, students, consumers, creators and innovators ... need access to copyrighted material in order to make - or prepare to make - their own contributions to cultural and economic progress. "
    - Peter Jaszi
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My Pop Studio: An Online Game for Media Literacy
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What is Media Literacy? Watch This Brief Video
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Global Understanding Through Media Literacy
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Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Learning
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Bringing Digital and Media Literacy to K-12 Schools
The Media Education Lab at Temple University advances media literacy education through research and community service. We emphasize interdisciplinary scholarship and practice that stands at the intersections of communication, media studies and education.

News and Events

  • Kids and Cell Phones
    Renee Hobbs was featured on a segment about children and cell phones on WPSG, Philly CW on August 26, 2010. Watch the segment here.   
  • Copyright Clarity: Train-the-Trainers Workshop
    Learn how to teach about copyright and fair use in this one-day train-the-trainers seminar that will give you all the knowledge and tools you need to bring copyright clarity to…
  • Hobbs at Aspen Institute FOCAS
  • Copyright Clarity in Virginia Beach
    On August 11 - 12, Spiro Bolos, New Trier High School (IL) technology/social studies teacher and an Affiliated Faculty of the Media Education Lab at Temple University brought COPYRIGHT CLARITY…
  • Teaching News Literacy
    John McManus, Dean Miller, Fred Blevins, Dale Cressman and Renee Hobbs participated in a panel discussion on "Teaching News Literacy,” at the 2010 AEJMC Annual Convention in Denver on August…