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Media literacy: (mis) shaping women's sports.
Abstract
The messages the media sends about women's sport have had a powerful influence on how women athletes and women's sports are accepted in this culture. This article describes a media literacy assignment developed to provide students with a dramatic example of the need for media literacy and the dangers of accepting, as truth, many of the messages and cultural production the media has developed about women's sports.
Introduction
Women's sport has come a long way since the pre Title IX days (Education Amendment Act of 1972). Title IX requires no person can be excluded from participation or denied benefits on the basis of sex from any ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Media literacy: (mis) shaping women's sports.