Women's Interfaith Media Literacy

Our culture, values and society are shaped by the powerful images, words and sounds of today's mass media.� Living and working in this culture we need to develop the understanding and skills to become more media literate.

Women's Interfaith Media Literacy is a unique project providing information and resources to help women from different faith communities working together to� better understand, analyze, use and evaluate the media.

As more 'media literate' users we can more effectively share our views and concerns with those who produce and regulate� the press, broadcasting and on-line media.
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In particular, women are concerned with three important issues, the:

��* portrayal of faith and faith communities in the media,�
��* exploitation and stereotyping of women in the media and the�
��* premature�sexualisation of, and�marketing to children by the media.

Women� want to influence and change the way the media often cover and present these topics.

In 2007 and 2008 we held a number of regional media literacy awareness raising events to provide the opportunity for women from diverse faith communities to collaborate and� participate in a diversity of informative and/or interactive workshops.� We provided a range of appropriate printed and web-based resources to support these events.

This website has been established with the support of the Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund.

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