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Making moves: Lateral reading and strategic thinking during digital source evaluation

Elizabeth Walsh-Moorman; Kristine Pytash · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Using screencasting videos as think-alouds, this case study explores the process three high school seniors used when tasked with evaluating digital sources. Drawing from dual level theory of literacy, the study explores the complexities involved when students are asked to conduct informal research of their source (a strategy called lateral reading) in order …

On the street where I live: Mapping a spectrum of antiracist messages and meanings

Carla Chamberlin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper describes a critical media analysis of antiracist messages from both teaching and research perspectives. Antiracist discourse of public media (yard signs and websites) was collected in two communities in the Northeastern United States in 2020 and are discussed here, first as a site of social construction of antiracism, and second as a model for pe…

The Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM): The six R’s for social justice-oriented educators

Srividya Ramasubramanian; Emily Riewestahl; Shelby Landmark · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper describes the Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM) framework for social justice-oriented educators. We draw on trauma-informed approaches to illustrate how systemic racism as systemic trauma and normative whiteness as dominant ideology are embedded in the U.S education and media institutions. From an equity-minded perspective, we…

Media, making & movement: Bridging media literacy and racial justice through critical media project

Alison Trope; DJ Johnson; Stefanie Demetriades · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article offers a theoretically-grounded case study considering the role of Critical Media Project (CMP) as an educational initiative and intervention that sits at the juncture of media literacy and social justice. CMP fills key gaps in media literacy education by using a critical media literacy frame to foster critical consumption, critical creation, an…

Do media literacies approach equity and justice?

Paul Mihailidis; Srividya Ramasubramanian; Melissa Tully; Bobbie Foster; Emily Riewestahl; Patrick Johnson; Sydney Angove · DOAJ Open Access Articles

It is often assumed that media literacy serves to protect and uphold democratic practice and that media literate citizens are the best safeguards for democracy. However, little attention is paid to defining this practice and its relationship to ongoing inequities within democratic societies. In this essay, we argue media literacy operates from three core ass…

Teaching beyond verifying sources and “fake news”: Critical media education to challenge media injustices

Jeremy Stoddard; Jonathan Tunstall; Leila Walker; Emily Wight · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Current popular media literacy programs overemphasize the verifiability, reliability, and expertise of sources over the analysis of how marginalized groups are represented. This analysis privileges traditional news sources – and a hierarchy of “objective” news. These same institutions have been historically responsible for producing and reinforcing stereotyp…

Media, obesity discourse, and participatory politics: Exploring digital engagement among university students

Tao Papaioannou · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Situated within research on youth, participatory politics, and media framing of obesity, this study examined how undergraduate students in a media literacy course engaged with obesity discourse as a nexus of civic participation. Twenty-nine students enrolled on the course identified frames of obesity in plus-size model Tess Holliday’s Instagram posts surroun…

Book review: Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto

Benjamin Thevenin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A review of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (2020) written by Kevin M. Gannon.

Using critical media literacy to create a decolonial, anti-racist teaching philosophy

Alexis Romero Walker · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media educators must address their personal teaching philosophies to adequately participate in anti-racist pedagogy. Using critical media literacy principles, educators can be aware of student’s bodies and performance in relation to reinforced systems of whiteness in the media classroom. This article proposes ways for higher education media educators to adju…

“Draw the internet”: A visual exploration of how children imagine an everyday technology

Luca A. Botturi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The internet is today a significant part of children’s daily lives, and digital competences have been included as basic learning goals in many school systems worldwide. In order to develop sound and effective early-age internet education programs, information about how children use the internet should be integrated with insights in how they understand it. Th…

Higher education students’ social media literacy in Ethiopia: A case of Bahir Dar University.

Atinafu Behailu · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study investigates the status of Bahir Dar University students’ social media literacy and how associated factors affect developing core competencies. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods have been employed in the study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics of means core, standard deviation, one sample t-test, independent…

A qualitative study of early adolescents’ critical thinking about the content and consequences of media violence

Erica Scharrer; Yuxi Zhou · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Research shows that young people are likely to encounter considerable amounts of violence in the media they use. Some of those depictions trivialize the severity of violence. Past studies show that media literacy education can spur critical thinking regarding violent portrayals in media texts. But rarely do prior studies employ qualitative methods to underst…

An approach to creative media literacy for world issues

Abduljalil Nasr Hazaea · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article introduces an approach to creative media literacy for world issues (WIs) such as Covid-19. In so doing, the article integrates four positions on discourse and media as terrible facets of globalization in the context of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The objectivist position deals with WIs as neutral discourse shared among humanity and distri…

A local lens on global media literacy: Teaching media and the Arab world

Katharina Schmoll · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The globalization and transnationalization of media use have facilitated access to voices from the Arab world. Students and teachers in Western higher education can make use of these voices within and outside the classroom to enhance students’ knowledge of the region and challenge Eurocentric imaginations of the ‘Other’. Yet to ensure students engage with th…

Virtually Viral Hangouts: Reflections on the role of community during crisis

Lauren G. McClanahan · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this essay, I reflect on two key aspects of my membership in the online community known as Virtually Viral Hangouts (VVH). First, I reflect on how membership in this group helped me professionally, providing important, in-time instruction as I learned to make the switch from in-person to remote learning in the early days of Covid-19. Next, I reflect on ho…

Seeding change: What VVH can teach us about teaching and learning in digital spaces

Michelle Ciccone · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this essay, I reflect on a central question: “why did I experience something so profoundly different in Virtually Viral Hangouts (VVH) than I was able to help seed in my own district during the COVID-19 crisis?” I identify three key components of the VVH ethos that inspired new ways of thinking, namely: digital technologies free us from constraints to bui…

The secret sauce of online community of practice during COVID-19 pandemic: Nonviolent Communication

Yonty Friesem; Elizaveta Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The challenges of work-family balance while being asked to move to remote instruction and engage students creatively have affected us all globally on multiple levels - from our professional identity, to our own health, mortality and purpose in life. The idea behind Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is that as Rosenberg (2015/1999) put it, it is a language that …

Connect the dots

Edward McDonough · DOAJ Open Access Articles

During the dawn of the Covid Pandemic our isolation was a depressant. As teachers we were struggling with how to teach, as the popular saying explains, in an environment “that was like building an airplane as we were learning how to fly it.” As a teacher in practice, Virtually Viral Hangouts became my antidepressant. This daily online community of educators …

Hope matters: How an online learning community advanced emotional self-awareness and caring during the COVID-19 pandemic

Renee Hobbs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

For many educators with interests in digital and media literacy, the COVID-19 pandemic was an inadvertent opportunity to explore digital and media literacy through online learning and professional development. This paper describes how a diverse and multidisciplinary group of educators gathered each weekday in a Zoom video conference meeting for fellowship, e…

Book review: Media Education in Latin America

Helen J. DeWaard · DOAJ Open Access Articles