All illusions are potential ways of ordering reality. The goal of criticism should therefore be not to destroy illusions but to make us more sensitive to their workings and their complexity.
Mark Reid
The Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island advances media literacy education through research and community service. We emphasize interdisciplinary scholarship and practice that stands at the intersections of communication, media studies and education.
All illusions are potential ways of ordering reality. The goal of criticism should therefore be not to destroy illusions but to make us more sensitive to their workings and their complexity.
- Leo Braudy, The World in a Frame, 1977
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Cary
Cary appointed me to my first
Cary appointed me to my first role at the BFI in 1998. She created a team of talented and committed people amongst whom I felt privileged to work. Between 2002 and 2008 we worked together on a campaign to raise the profile of the moving image as a fundamental part of children's literacy. Reframing Literacy set an agenda in primary education in the UK that is still playing out, long after the structures that enabled it (especially local authority infrastructure) have fallen away.
Cary combines a rigorous, critical, research based approach to practice, with a deeply rooted care for the cultures and experiences of children. She continues to be a powerful advocate for the value of moving image culture and, in her most recent research venture, a model for how we should continue to be curious, enquiring, and questioning in this field, rather than rest on the laurels of what we know already.