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Book review: Elementary schoolers, meet media literacy: How teachers can bring economics, media, and marketing to life

Rachel Guldin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Taking corrective action when exposed to fake news: The role of fake news literacy

Brigitte Huber; Porismita Borah; Homero Gil de Zúñiga · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Fake news poses a threat to democracy. The rise of social media and its lax content regulation have facilitated a dynamic environment where mis- and disinformation are spread. However, social media is also the place where false information may be corrected. Initial scholarly efforts begin to highlight what is needed for citizens to take corrective action whe…

The impact of media and information literacy on students’ acquisition of the skills needed to detect fake news

Reem M Al Zou'bi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This research investigated the impact of media and information literacy (MIL) on education faculty students’ acquisition of the skills needed to detect fake news. A one-group experimental design was employed with a randomly selected sample of 100 Jordanian undergraduate students. The participants completed one pre-test and two post-tests, each of which consi…

Analysis of definitions of media literacy

W. James Potter · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study provides an analysis of how the term “media literacy” has been defined by authors of articles published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education. It generates answers to two questions: (1) To what extent does there appear to be a shared meaning for the term “media literacy” across authors who publish articles on this topic, and (2) When authors …

Critical media literacy for uncertain times: Promoting student reflexivity

Dawn H. Currie; Deirdre M. Kelly · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) add urgency to the claim that democracy requires media literate citizens. The purpose of this paper is to support media engagement by youth in a context characterized by the spread of misinformation through the very technologies that promise to democratize public debate. Rejecting literacy as …

Book review: News literacy and democracy

Huan Gao · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Bringing digital well-being into the heart of digital media literacies

Julia Feerrar · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The complexities of our digital media landscape present challenges that often strain the physical, emotional, and social well-being of learners and educators alike. Given these challenges, this essay makes a case for incorporating digital well-being into digital and media literacy curricula and pedagogy. For the author, a focus on digital well-being, or the …

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) competencies of language and communication students

Janet S. Tibaldo · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This descriptive study aims at identifying the level of media and information literacy (MIL) competencies of Language and Communication students in the Philippines using UNESCO’s Access, Evaluation and Creation components. A self-report survey of a small sample of university students was conducted and findings show that respondents have an intermediate MIL c…

Book review: Thinking like a generalist: Skills for making sense of a complex world

Oluwakorede Ajibona · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Book review: Supporting mission, students, and community

Caitlin C McLemore · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Popular music media literacy: A pilot study

Chrysalis L Wright; Reilly Branch; Lesley-anne Ey; K. Megan Hopper; Wayne Warburton · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The current study pilot tested a popular music media literacy website that was developed based on the final report of the APA Division 46 Task Force on the Sexualization of Popular Music (2018). The study hypothesized that popular music media literacy education would produce significant differences between the baseline assessment and post-literacy assessment…

Discerning (Dis)information: Teacher perceptions of critical media literacy

Jennifer K. Allen; Robert A. Griffin; Diana Mindrila · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Critical media literacy (CML) is vital for students to navigate the current proliferation of misinformation and disinformation. Despite what is known about the influence of teacher beliefs on classroom practice, little research to date has looked at what teachers perceive about the importance of CML. The researchers administered a survey to teachers througho…

Making in media education: An activity-oriented approach to digital literacy

Thomas Knaus · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Why is maker education a suitable approach for giving learners the 21st century skills they need to cope with the digital transformation? This article provides an answer and represents a defense of maker education in the field of educational science. Taking a human-media-machine interaction model as the basis for discussion, this article highlights the growi…

College students’ perspectives of bias in their news consumption habits

Jolie C. Matthews · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article builds off prior work on news consumption habits and perception of bias in the news by focusing on college students’ self-generated definitions of bias, and the strategies they employ to guard against how their personal bias potentially affects what news they choose to believe and consume. Through interviews with undergraduate students, findings…

Domesticating space: Media production pedagogy for the empowerment of marginalized youth

Maarit Jaakkola; Linda Sternö; Elias Fryk · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article investigates the role of space in media and information literacy (MIL), especially when supporting learners’ production skills. The MIL framework is to a great extent focused on deconstruction of messages in a private position of reception, while the theoretical, didactic and ethical components of the production pedagogy are less developed. This…

Vlog Virtual Tour: A critical framing perspective

Qinghua Chen · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The Vlogs on YouTube have been excellent sources to satisfy craving for mystical and enigmatic distant land detached of our immediate surroundings. Despite the benefits of free world tours in high definition videos, many of the vloggers' framing of the distant land and culture for the purpose of crafting interesting and attractive travelling stories has, in …

Digital curation and complex decision making: A school district’s literacy initiative

Sue Ann Sharma; Mark Edward Deschaine · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Schools are in the process of incorporating professional development activities to prepare technology-proficient educators to utilize information and communication tools to meet the pedagogical needs of 21st-century students and learners. This research addresses the challenges of and preservation possibilities for the digital work of learning communities acr…

Screencasting Information Literacy. Insights in pre-service teachers’ conception of online searching

Luca Botturi; Chiara Beretta · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Information Literacy (IL) has been named a key competence for the twenty-first century and is being progressively introduced in many compulsory school curricula. Nonetheless, the actual implementation of effective IL education cannot be carried out without the sound preparation of teachers. This study explores the naïve, pre-instruction conceptions of online…

Analyzing the distinction between protectionism and empowerment as perspectives on media literacy education

W. James Potter · DOAJ Open Access Articles

It has become a common practice to categorize the different perspectives on media education as following either a protectionist approach or an empowerment approach. However, the way scholars write about these two categories can be confusing and sometimes misleading. A critical analysis is presented where these writings are examined along 10 analytical dimens…

Assessing media literacy competences: Reflections and recommendations from a quantitative study

Sara Pereira; Pedro Moura · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The assessment of media literacy is a complex task, which might attempt to reconcile a research field traditionally developed within a critical paradigm with the task of evaluating and quantifying media literacy competences through essentially quantitative methods. Despite the lack of consensus regarding how to evaluate and measure media literacy, this goal …