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Media Literacy Policy in Flanders – Belgium: From Parliamentary Discussions to Public Policy

Leo Van Audenhove; Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe; Ilse Mariën · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The discussion on media literacy in Flanders starts in the Flemish Parliament in 2006. It will take until 2013 before the Flemish Government will set up the Knowledge Center for Media Literacy—Mediawijs. Flanders is therefore rather late in establishing a dedicated institute for media literacy. The same can be said for developing a formal policy framework in…

Teaching Girls Online Skills: Results of the Wikid Grrls Intervention

Stine Eckert; Jade Metzger-Riftkin; Joanna Nurmis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In 2013-2016 we designed and implemented Wikid Grrls, a 10-week after-school workshop series to teach online skills to middle school girls in U.S. schools. We interviewed and surveyed 80 participants before and after the workshops. Girls’ online skills and confidence in them increased measurably for the duration of the workshop series. Participants expressed…

Foregrounding Morality: Encouraging Parental Media Literacy Intervention Using the TARES Test for Ethical Persuasion

Kevin J Pearce; Stanley Baran · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the United States, children are exposed to literally hundreds of thousands of television commercials a year and virtually every aspect of kids’ lives are replete with commercial messages. The negative effects of this exposure are well documented. Yet, there remains very little regulation or limit on advertising to children beyond that which exists for adu…

Deconstructing Media in the College Classroom: A Longitudinal Critical Media Literacy Intervention

Andrea M. Bergstrom; Mark Flynn; Clay Craig · DOAJ Open Access Articles

While many studies have addressed the impact of media literacy interventions on knowledge of specific topic areas, few have explored improvements in media literacy skills as outcome measures. This study analyzed the impact of a media literacy intervention on participants’ critical thinking skills and understanding of media literacy principles by addressing t…

How Brazil’s Unified University Entrance Exam (ENEM) Impacts Media Literacy Education

Danilo Venticinque; Andrew Whitworth · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article discusses the outcomes of research into the media literacy aspects of ENEM (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio), Brazil's unified university entrance exam, which contains a significant number of exam questions based on excerpts from newspaper articles, online news and other media sources. Through content analysis, these questions are classified acco…

Book Review: Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices: Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

Lucie Roemer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media Literacy and Climate Change in a Post-Truth Society

James S Damico; Mark Baildon; Alexandra Panos · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this article we draw from ecolingusitics (Stibbe, 2015) and a civic media literacy framework (Author, in press; Masyada & Washington, 2016) to consider what happened when three pairs of preservice teachers with different academic backgrounds and climate change beliefs jointly evaluated the reliability of two media sources that make opposing arguments abou…

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 …

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…

Peran guru bimbingan dan konseling dalam mengatasi siswa bermasalah di madrasah tsanawiyah swasta al-azis rantauprapat labuhanbatu

Handayani, Kiki Tri · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

Penyesuaian diri sangat penting bagi kehidupan manusia, terutama pada aspek social di lingkungan individu tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk 1)Mengetahui penyebab siswa tidak dapat dapat menyesuaikan diri di Madrasah Tsanawiyah Swasta Al-Azis Rantauprapat Labuhanbatu, 2) Bagaimana upaya guru BK dalam mengatasi siswa bermasalah dalam penyesuaikan diri d…

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…