This book will give any teen or "tween" a solid grounding in current media systems and provide them with hands-on, easy-to-follow instructions to become radical card-carrying activists. (It will even teach them how to make those cards.) With an emphasis on community-building, teamwork, historical research, and self-expression, this book will even prove useful for improving those skills so sought after by educational testing and after-school programs everywhere. A perfect introduction to media studies, fast becoming an important addition to school curriculae everywhere.

The first chapters of this book begin by leading readers to the understanding that advertising drives most of everything they experience in any given day, and that youth, in particular, are the most sought-after demographic target in existence. This is discussed as an empowering realization, allowing youth to understand that their potential as a market directly related to their potential to make change in a market-driven system, such as that under which we operate in the U.S. right now. The book continues by describing basic approaches to messaging while allowing youth to explore and develop their own content of those messages; provides easy-to-follow directions for performing basic activist functions, such as holding meetings, making salsa, designing flyers and posters, hooking up a PA, and working effectively with others.

Anne Elizabeth Moore has seen her work in print for over half her life. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as The Journal of Popular Culture, Clamor, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, Bridge, the Chicago Reader, Friction, Stayfree!, Chicago's New City, and Punk Planet. In addition, Moore has served on the staffs of renowned publications including The Onion, Matte, The Progressive, and The Comics Journal. In 1998, Moore was the honored recipient of a Master’s degree in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the U.S. school rated number one in fine arts education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, by Newsweek. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and pursues continuing education in various languages when she has spare time. She has lectured across North America (including in-person, radio and television appearances on CNN, NPR and various local outlets) on the use of imagery in political popular culture. A long-time self-publisher with over 30 single-shot zines to her credit, Moore has recently been traveling throughout the country addressing issues of independent publishing to audiences of various ages and experiences in that field.

A 25-city author tour, or to quote the author: "A big cross-country educational roadshow tour with readings and workshops, held in libraries, schools, after-school organizations, college campuses, book stores, FUTURE 500-like Not-For-Profits, punk houses, etc., that combines a reading with an activity, or perhaps splits them up so that aperformative, interactive activity is held during the day and then a more formal reading is at night."

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