John Pungente, S. J. is the founder of the Jesuit Communication Project in Toronto, Canada. He is an educator and international consultant on issues related to children, youth, and the media. He is on the Board of Directors for the Association for Media Literacy.

Father Pungente is currently host of Scanning the Movies, a series devoted to giving audiences new ways of appreciating and critically understanding movies. He is also a co-author of the award wining Scanning Television a multi-media resource kit for educators.

Some of his writings on media literacy can be found here.

In May 2004 he will present a seminar on Buffy and media literacy at the Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.