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jfrechette1

Julie Frechette, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. She is the co-editor of the book Media Education for a Digital Generation, as well as the book, Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace. She serves as co-president of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME).

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Dr. Susan Maret, Lecturer at the School of Information, San Jose State University, and Project Censored contributor to Censored 2017, is coeditor...
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By Eryn Adler and Makayla Scalli Thousands of endless lawsuits have been filed to the Sackler family pharmaceutical business, Purdue Pharma,...
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Miss-Leading Characters: The Hyper-Sexualization of Females in Video Games

With gaming profits reaching nearly 140 billion annually, the video game industry has been corrupted by marketing imperatives that target boys and men through the over-sexualization and objectification of female video game characters.

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