Curated OER
Make a Music Video
Learners develop ideas for a music video of a familiar children's song. Working together, they write a script, create costumes, props, and scenery and stage shots to be taped.
Curated OER
Africa Wants Its MTV!
Young scholars consider the impact of MTV and the introduction of an MTV channel in Africa. They develop original programs for MTV Base that appeal to both local and global audiences.
University of California
Ucla: Cultural Studies, and Multiculturalism
In the last third of this professor's article from UCLA dealing with how media culture helps to "forge our very identities," he considers MTV as a way of making cultural studies "multiperspectival" and therefore more varied and valid.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Life in the 1980s
Read about the advent of cable television in the 1980s and the many stations that spawned. It was also the time of drug wars, the idea that greed was good, and the beginning of the scourge of AIDS.
Other
Temple University Press: Gender Politics and Mtv
A summary of Lisa Lewis's book on the careers of female musicians in which she "challenges the idea that MTV presents only negative and sexist images of women."