Mesin Referensi Akademik

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…

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

Viral Hangouts: The media literacy lifeline I didn’t realize I needed

Scott Spicer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article describes my experience as an academic media librarian initially seeking guidance on best support practices for the virtual world from other media literacy educators at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. What I found through the Virtual Viral Hangouts community turned out to be so much more! In addition to sharing tips on media lit…

Self Control siswa dalam upaya meningkatkan mutu belajar oleh guru bimbingan konseling di Madrasah Aliyah Swasta Al Washliyah Tanjung Tiram Kabupaten Batu Bara

Cahaya, Cahaya · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

The purpose of this study was to explain and analyze the understanding of counseling teachers on self-control and the implementation of counseling in improving the quality of learning in students. This research was conducted at MAS Al-Washliyah Tanjung Tiram Batu Bara Regency. The method used is a qualitative method with triangulation techniques and the …

Pengaruh Media Teka-Teki Silang dan Video Animasi Tentang Sarapan Pagi Terhadap Pengetahuan dan Sikap Siswa SDN 101778 Medan Estate Tahun 2020

Pohan, Maharani · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

Breakfast is included in one of the thirteen basic message of balanced nutrition. For school children breakfast sufficient proven to improve learning concentration and stamina thus improving learning achievement. Often school children ignore breakfast on the grounds of lack of time, not hungry or no appetite. Though breakfast is not just a booster stomac…

Implementasi Pembelajaran Tematik dalam peningkatan kompetensi perkembangan kognitif dan bahasa anak di Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan

Jamilah, Jamilah · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

The objectives of this study are: (1) thematic learning planning in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan, (2) implementation of thematic learning in improving children's cognitive and language development in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan, (3) evaluation of thematic learning in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan , and (4) supporting and i…

Implementasi pembelajaran tematik dalam peningkatan kompetensi perkembangan kognitif dan bahasa pada anak Di Raudhatul Athfal RahmatIslamiyah Medan

Jamilah, Jamilah · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

The objectives of this study are: (1) thematic learning planning in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan, (2) implementation of thematic learning in improving children's cognitive and language development in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan, (3) evaluation of thematic learning in Raudhatul Athfal Rahmat Islamiyah Medan , and (4) supporting and inhi…