Our goal is to provide Mexican children with tools to exercise their communication and human rights through media literacy workshops. Our goal is to create media observatories and media production groups for and by children.
Mexican children spend more time watching television or playing video games than with their parents or teachers; they are constantly influenced by contents of commercial media that promote consumerism, violence, and gender and social prejudices. In addition, our adult-centered society leaves little or no opportunities for children to express themselves through media or to have the adequate tools to be critical of media content.
We`re striving to create dynamics where children can participate and dialogue about media consumption and content using media literacy workshops that contain a human rights approach. These workshops radically change children's relationship with media by guiding them into becoming critical about media content. The workshops are geared towards stimulating group relationships and team work through the production of videos and/or radio programs in which the children discover their individual talents
We are working so that children can shift their passive and receptive relationship with media to an active, analytical and proactive one. This project will provide children with the required tools to express themselves and exercise their human rights, contributing to the construction of citizenship and a culture of peace.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
