Looking for a free web application for mindmapping? Bubbl.us is the answer.

Click on the following link to watch a brief tutorial. BubblTutorial

Teens, TV and the World of Fame

Click on the player below to listen to a text which sums up some of the effects of reality TV shows on young people.

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Role-play Activity

After listening to the text on the player, download the worksheet below in order to prepare a role-play activity. Role Play Teens+TV

BBC's Internet Season

Starting on March 6th, at 15:30(GMT), on BBC World News. You can't miss it!

Advertising and the Internet

Advertising boosts consumerism by creating desires that didn't exist before. As Gillian Dyer puts it, "today it suffuses the whole system of mass communication" (Advertising as Communication, 1995). You're going to watch a video about how communication has evolved since pre-historic times. It specially focuses on how technologies have contributed to changing the way we communicate and points to the future prospects of advertising. How is the Internet changing advertising? Watch the video and find out.

Buy Nothing Day

How about buying nothing for a day? Would you do it? For more info on the Buy Nothing Day, follow this link: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk

Consumer - what's in a name?

Here's what the famous sociologist Zygmunt Bauman tells us:

'A consumer is a person who consumes, and to consume means using things up: eating them, wearing them, playing with them and otherwise causing them to satisfy one's needs or desires. Since in our part of the world it is money which in most cases mediates between desire and its satisfaction, being a consumer also means appropriating most of the things destined to be consumed.'

Work, Consumerism and the new poor, 1998