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Resources Review: Adaptive (podcast), Montreal*in/accessible (mobile app), Accessible Arcade Tables (DIY project)

Giuliana Cucinelli · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Thisresourcesreview spotlights a variety of DIY (do-it yourself) innovative media projects. Examples of these projects include: a podcast series on adaptive technologies, building mobile applications that allow participants to publish images, text and sound recordings, an interactive map that documents disability discrimination in the certain cities and the …

College Students' Motivations for Using Podcasts

Mun-Young Chung; Hyang-Sook Kim · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite potential benefits of podcasts for college education, little research has examined students’ psychological drives for using podcasts. To explore the relationship between the use of podcasts and college students’ appreciation of them, this study investigated students’ motivations, attitudes and behaviors with regard to podcasts use including their lea…

Debates about the Future of Media Literacy in Turkey

Ebubekir Cakmak; Sait Tuzel · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy has been widely debated in Turkey since the early 2000s and has been in the curriculum of the secondary schools as an optional subject for nearly a decade. During this time period, about four million students have received media literacy education. The multidisciplinary structure of media literacy has contributed to the interest of many resear…

Review: A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication: Youth Radio and Radio Arts in the Multilingual Classroom

Jillian M Belanger · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this review of Dana Walker's 2014 book A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication: Youth Radio and Radio Arts in the Multilingual Classroom, Jillian Belanger recounts the project's four main aims of media production, community engagement, student confidence, and language development, and offers insight to what made Walker's work engaging English Learners with y…

A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Measuring News Media Literacy

Emily K Vraga; Melissa Tully; John E Kotcher; Anne-Bennett Smithson; Melissa Broeckelman-Post · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Measuring news media literacy is important in order for it to thrive in a variety of educational and civic contexts. This research builds on existing measures of news media literacy and two new scales are presented that measure self-perceived media literacy (SPML) and perceptions of the value of media literacy (VML). Research with a larger sample of college …

Rap Music Literacy: A Case Study of Millennial Audience Reception to Rap Lyrics Depicting Independent Women

Mia Moody-Ramirez; Lakia M Scott · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Using a feminist lens and a constructivist approach as the theoretical framework, we used rap lyrics and videos to help college students explore mass media’s representation of the “independent” Black woman and the concept of “independence” in general. Students must be able to formulate their own concept of independence to counteract the messages and stereoty…

Review: Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children: Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers

Becky Michelson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Today’s youth are exposed to sexualized media at an alarming rate. The inundation of sexuality and gender stereotypes is further perpetuated by youth interactions with celebrity culture, the search for fame, and social media. In her book, Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children: Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers, Jennifer Shewmaker explains …

What do Facts Have to Do with It? Exploring Instructional Emphasis in the Stony Brook News Literacy Curriculum

Jennifer Fleming · DOAJ Open Access Articles

An analytic matrix comprised of multiple media literacy teaching and learning principles is conceptualized to examine a model of news literacy developed by journalism educators at Stony Brook University. The multidimensional analysis indicates that news literacy instructors focus on teaching students how to question and assess the veracity of news texts, and…

Web-based Media Literacy to Prevent Tobacco Use among High School Students

Jane S Phelps-Tschang; Elizabeth Miller; Kristen R Rice; Brian A. Primack · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Facilitator-led smoking media literacy (SML) programs have improved media literacy and reduced intention to smoke. However, these programs face limitations including high costs and barriers to standardization. We examined the efficacy of a Web-based media literacy program in improving smoking media literacy skills among adolescents. Sixty-six 9th grade stude…

The Think Aloud Approach. A Promising Tool for Online Reading Comprehension

Stefania Carioli; Andrea Peru · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite its unquestionable interest from a theoretical and practical point of view, so far there has been little research on online reading and there is a lack of attention paid to this topic in most European educational institutions. In particular, primary and secondary school teachers are not adequately trained on how and when to intervene to support stude…

The Issues and Challenges of Assessing Media Literacy Education

Evelien A Schilder; Barbara B. Lockee; D. Patrick Saxon · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the media literacy literature, the challenges associated with assessment have, to a great extent, been ignored. The purpose of this mixed methods study was therefore to explore the views of media literacy scholars and professionals on assessment challenges through qualitative interviews (n = 10) with the intent of using this information to develop a quant…

Evaluating Online Media Literacy in Higher Education: Validity and Reliability of the Digital Online Media Literacy Assessment (DOMLA)

Tom Hallaq · DOAJ Open Access Articles

While new technology continues to develop and become increasingly affordable, and students have increased access to digital media, one might wonder if requiring such technology in the classroom is akin to throwing the car keys to a teen-ager who has not completed a driver’s education course. The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable quant…

Professional Resource: The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015)

Benjamin Thevenin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

What Do You Use Mobile Phones for? A Creative Method of Thematic Drawing with Adolescents in Rural China

Jiachun Hong · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study sets out to explore Chinese adolescents’ subjectivities toward the use of mobile phones, and reveal the dynamic relationship among students, parents, and school concerning mobile phone usage in rural China. Twenty-one high school students were recruited, and asked to draw a painting that expresses their perceptions of mobile phones in relation to …

Padawan’s Journey: Remixing Star Wars Radio for Adolescent Literacy Education

Mark J. Davis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The Star Wars phenomenon motivates adolescents who may be disengaged in the classroom. The wealth of visual content may overshadow the power of the music, sound effects, and dialogue. In literacy education, skills are often practiced by reading and discussing traditional texts. In this digital literacy project, struggling readers remixed the Star Wars canon …

Media Detectives: Bridging the Relationship among Empathy, Laugh Tracks, and Gender in Childhood

Sruti Kanthan; James A. Graham; Lynne Azarchi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Empathy in college-age students is decreasing at unprecedented rates. Understanding empathy in children can act as primary prevention in tackling the problem. This study considers laugh tracks’ capacity to bias reality, foster empathy, and investigate differences across time and gender in 181 fifth grade students. The results from this quasi-experimental stu…

Book Review: Making Media Studies by David Gauntlett

Antonio Lopez · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Making Media Studies is a collection of previously published and updated works by David Gauntlett, including his infamous essay, “Media Studies 2.0.” It explores ways in which the traditional media studies paradigm has been disrupted by prosumers and the practices of everyday people and DIY “makers” who are using the internet to learn, make things and share …

Smartphone Apps in Education: Students Create Videos to Teach Smartphone Use as Tool for Learning

Kara E. Clayton; Amanda Murphy · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Smartphones are regular classroom accessories. Educators should work with children to understand the capacity of smartphones for learning and civic engagement, rather than being a classroom distraction. This research supports a collaborative project the authors engaged in with students in two states to discover what the perception of smartphone use was by st…

Book Review: Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools by Vanessa Domine

Hailee K Dunn · DOAJ Open Access Articles

“Media violence is made to attract and entertain people”: Responses to Media Literacy Lessons on the Effects of and Institutional Motives behind Media Violence

Laras Sekarasih; Kimberly R Walsh; Erica Scharrer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study investigated the following research question: How do sixth-graders respond to a media literacy lesson that was designed to, among other goals, introduce the concept of the presence of commercial interest in media production, particularly regarding the prevalence of media violence? Forty-seven responses were analyzed thematically using constant com…