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As you are fully aware, the interest of young adults is deeply invested in digital and new media technology -- most notably the Internet. As a result, Walker Art Center's Teen Programs implemented Cyberchicas, a ten-week class to teach female students how to develop World Wide Web-based media and media literacy skills. The students deepened their understanding of the web's relation to interactive communication and media literacy in the digital age. In addition, we worked with the participants to deconstruct the mass media targeted at them.
Cyberchicas. Ten weeks. Ten young women committed to a better understanding of the internet, armed themselves with knowledge of mass media marketing and HTML. Check out their sites and take a look at their reply to the way women are represented in the media today and the mass media marketing world around them. They sifted through the internet and deconstructed tons of images, created their own web pages, and their own łads˛ using an on-line interactive program.
Cyberchicas met with special guest artists including with Celina Hex and Betty Boob, founders of Bust "The Magazine for Women with Something to Get Off Their Chests." Cyberchicas was in partnership with The Blake School, Northrop Campus.
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Cyberchicas was made possible by the generous support of MCI WORLDCOM.
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