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Book Review: Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference

Antonio Lopez · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference, is a book for English language arts and media literacy teachers that provides abundant resources for educators wanting to incorporate climate change instruction into their classrooms. This review explores the usefulness of the book and discusses more broadly the barriers and o…

Mediating Religious Literacy among Primary School children in Gujarat: Classroom as a Liminal Space

Kiran Vinod Bhatia · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Articulation of religious guidelines in the political milieu never takes place in a disembodied form; rather politically inscribed religious discourses are embedded within and conveyed through specific institutional channels, including media organizations and education institutions. My experiences of working as a media educator in villages in Gujarat have he…

Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Challenge of Fake News

Lance E Mason; Dan Krutka; Jeremy Stoddard · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this essay, the authors offer a context for discussions about fake news, democracy, and considerations for media literacy education. Drawing on media ecology and critical media studies, they highlight the longer history of fake news and how this concept cannot be separated from the media technologies in which cultures grow. They discuss current iterations…

Both Facts and Feelings: Emotion and News Literacy

Susan Currie Sivek · DOAJ Open Access Articles

News literacy education has long focused on the significance of facts, sourcing, and verifiability. While these are critical aspects of news, rapidly developing emotion analytics technologies intended to respond to and even alter digital news audiences’ emotions also demand that we pay greater attention to the role of emotion in news consumption. This essay …

Winning The War On State-Sponsored Propaganda: Results From An Impact Study Of A Ukrainian News Media And Information Literacy Program

Erin Murrock; Joy Amulya; Mehri Druckman; Tetiana Liubyva · DOAJ Open Access Articles

From 2015-2016, IREX implemented a media literacy training program called Learn to Discern (L2D) that trained Ukrainian citizens to critically analyze news media messages and identify misinformation. In 2017, IREX conducted a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of news literacy skills, knowledge, and behavior using a stratified random sample of L2D particip…

Fake or Visual Trickery? Understanding the Quantitative Visual Rhetoric in the News

Rohit Mehta; Lynette DeAun Guzmán · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In online and video/television spaces, news media discourses incorporate multimodal design as a discursive move capable of steering meaning toward desirable implications. Around the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, while polarized news outlets made their positionality on the candidates obvious, more neutral or central news outlets revealed their preferences…

Exploring Echo-Systems: How Algorithms Shape Immersive Media Environments

James N. Cohen · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the lead up to the 2016 election, fake news often “outperformed” actual news in users’ social media feeds (Silverman, 2016). This paper attempts to analyze the process in which fake news proliferates social networking sites and presents a method of understanding and articulating ways in which personalized feeds are shaped by algorithm-based user feedback.…

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

Ellen Middaugh · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Amid growing concerns over the role of “fake news” in civic and political life, efforts to understand how to best prepare youth to evaluate and reason about online sources have gained a sense of urgency. However, less attention has been paid to how such skills are used in the context of the broader array of information behavior that is typical of civic and p…

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Thoman

Renee Hobbs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

News Media Literacy and Political Engagement: What’s the Connection?

Seth Ashley; Adam Maksl; Stephanie Craft · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Scholars and educators have long hoped that media education is positively related to pro-social goals such as political and civic engagement. With a focus on measuring news media literacy with emphasis on media knowledge, need for cognition and media locus of control, this study surveyed 537 college students and found positive relationships between news medi…

Towards a Culturally Inclusive, Integrated, and Transdisciplinary Media Education Curriculum— A Case Study of an International MA Program at the University of Lapland

Päivi M Rasi; Heli Ruokamo; Mari Maasilta · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Internationalization presents both opportunities and challenges for higher education policies and curricula, as well as for teaching and learning methods. This article describes and discusses ongoing exploration and development of the planned curriculum of the MA in Media Education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland in terms of…

Walking the Line between Reality and Fiction in Online Spaces: Understanding the Effects of Narrative Transportation

Sarah Gretter; Aman Yadav; Benjamin Gleason · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Recent contentions about "fake news" and misinformation online has shed light on the critical need for media literacy at a global scale. Indeed, digital stories are one of the main forms of communication in the 21st century through blogs, videos-sharing websites, forums, or social networks. However, the line between facts and fiction can often become blurry …

Measuring Media Literacy for Media Education: Development of a Questionnaire for Teachers' Competencies

Mathea Simons; Wil Meeus; Jan T'Sas · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Effective media education requires that teachers dispose of sufficient media literacy and that they have the competencies to promote media literacy in students. This article describes the development of a questionnaire to measure these competencies individually or as a team. The questionnaire was developed in five stages. A systematic and critical listing of…

Adapting New Media Literacies to Participatory Spaces: Social Media Literacy Practices of Multilingual Students

Osman Solmaz · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Approaching the new media literacies as social practices through the lens of Participatory Culture Framework, the present study adapted new media literacies to online social networks and examined the social media literacy practices of international graduate students (IGSs). The data was collected through an online survey of 90 IGSs, semi-structured interview…

Digital Media Production to Support Literacy for Secondary Students with Diverse Learning Abilities

April Marie Leach · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Producing digital media is a hands-on, inquiry-based mindful process that naturally embeds Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into literacy instruction, providing options for learning and assessment for a wide array of students with diverse learning abilities. Video production learning experiences acknowledge the cognitive talents of some student…

Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence

Elizabeth M Dalton · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing instruction to address the wide range of learner variation in today’s inclusive classrooms, can be applied effectively to broaden access, understanding, and engagement in digital and media literacy learning for ALL. UDL supports constructivist learning principles. UDL strategiesand methods encour…

Beyond Accessibility: How Media Literacy Education Addresses Issues of Disabilities

Yonty Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This special issue on media literacy and disability provides a variety of examples and case studies to showcase the importance of addressing issues of disability in the media literacy community. The literature on the intersection of media literacy and disability is slender but suggests four distinct uses of media for students with disabilities. However, none…

Teaching the Presidential Elections Using Media Literacy in the LD Classroom

Jaclyn K Siegel · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper examines how an educator at a school for students with learning disabilities (LD) used various types of media to engage her students, to develop their academic and executive functioning skills, and to heighten their awareness of media literacy and the 2012 and 2106 Presidential elections. Teacher-created curriculum materials and activities are pro…

The Book Trailer Project: Media Production within an integrated classroom

Karen Festa · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A special education co-teacher in an integrated elementary classroom describes key aspects of media literacy pedagogy for all students, including opportunities for critical analysis and creative media production. After elementary school students learned about author’s craft, purpose, theme/message, three types of writing, and target audience, they began look…

Access Denied: Ending the Exclusion of Disabled Students From Media Production Courses in Higher Education

Jayne Cubbage · DOAJ Open Access Articles

As the acceptance of media literacy increases among educators, media producers and consumers, one group is often missing from the dialogue—persons with disabilities. This absence is witnessed in the marginalized media depictions of the disabled. To gain entry into the media professions, some form of higher education is required. Using muted group theory as a…