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Determining the feasibility of an online, media mediation program for parents to improve parent-child sexual health communication

Tracy M Scull; Christina V Malik; Elyse M Keefe · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media Aware Parent is an interactive, web-based program designed to equip parents to communicate with their adolescent child about sexual health and media by enhancing parental communication and media mediation skills, as well as provide them with medically-accurate sexual health knowledge. In a small feasibility study, 56 parents of 7th and 8th graders in t…

Evaluating online information: Attitudes and practices of secondary English Language Arts teachers

Matthew Korona · DOAJ Open Access Articles

As an increasing number of teens are engaging in digital environments, they are becoming open to online misinformation often designed to further a variety of agendas. Online misinformation, or “fake news” as it is often referred to in popular culture, permeates all Web 2.0 technologies. Since English Language Arts curriculums often focus on topics related to…

Misunderstanding child-centeredness: The case of “child 2.0” and media education

Pekka Mertala · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This qualitative study demonstrates the kinds of pedagogical pitfalls that are included in simplistic understandings of child-centeredness in the context of media education, an emerging field of early childhood teacher education with only a little empirical research done so far. Course diaries from 15 preservice teachers were analyzed to find answers to the …

Critical media literacy approaches to violence prevention: A research note

Emily A Moorhouse; Hayley Brooks · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Sexual violence is a global phenomenon needing sustainable interventions. The article extends findings from media literacy scholars by exploring ways that critical media literacy (CML) pedagogies can be used to teach affirmative consent education for the purposes of violence prevention. The article is not a curriculum blue-print, as the pedagogies are still …

Is that media literacy?: Israeli and US media scholars’ perceptions of the field

Ornat Turin; Yonty Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Sixty-nine media scholars from Israel and the Unites States responded to an online questionnaire aimed to identify the boundaries of media literacy. The participants received a list of thirty-two potential titles for a final paper and were asked to rate the relevancy of each topic for an undergraduate media literacy course. While the statistical analysis sho…

Within, without, and amidst: A review of literacy educators’ perceptions of participatory media technologies

William T Wright · DOAJ Open Access Articles

With strict no-cell phone policies in classrooms becoming commonplace, national and international electioneering campaigns eroding trust in social media platforms, and content posted years prior affecting students’ acceptance into the colleges of their choice, it is little wonder that educators often think twice about bringing participatory technologies into…

The role of agenda melding in measuring news media literacy

Christine McWhorter · DOAJ Open Access Articles

During the past few decades, educators, advocates and researchers have developed initiatives to increase news media literacy. Recent surveys indicate that audiences combine agendas from various media to suit their own needs through group discussion. This process is called “agenda melding.” Agenda melding includes the “need for orientation” function in a soci…

Book Review: The Media Education Manifesto

Esteban Morales · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Developing a responsive and adaptable emergent media curriculum

Dennis Owen Frohlich; David Magolis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The field of mass communication is constantly undergoing change and development, and the pace has accelerated with the advent of digital technologies. One challenge educators face is: how do we educate college students not just for today’s careers, but also for lifelong competencies with media? Against this backdrop, the Department of Media and Journalism at…

Can middle schoolers learn to read the web like experts? Possibilities and limits of a strategy-based intervention

Angela M Kohnen; Gillian E. Mertens; Shelby M. Boehm · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper describes the strategies 8th graders used to evaluate the credibility of unfamiliar websites after a curricular intervention. Website topics were somewhat contested, and students could navigate the open web in order to assess the credibility of the sites. Findings reveal that students were more likely to leave the presented webpages and investigat…

Bridging the gap? The impact of a media literacy educational intervention on news media literacy, political knowledge, political efficacy among lower-educated youth

Sabine Geers; Mark Boukes; Judith Moeller · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Scholars generally agree that there is a gap between lower- and higher-educated citizens on civic competence, which solidifies during adolescence. This two-wave panel study examines how an educational intervention focused on media literacy influences civic competence among lower-educated youth (age 16 to 26). Additionally, the level of civic involvement amon…

Interest-driven sociopolitical youth engagement: Art and gun violence prevention

Janíce Tisha Samuels · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This exploratory case study examines the National Youth Art Movement Against Gun Violence intervention launched in Chicago in 2017 that used public art and new media creation to engage youth in activism for gun violence prevention. Five African American and Latino youth artists participated in the program; the study focuses on three of the participants’ expe…

Encounter and counter: Critical media literacy in teacher education

Rick Marlatt · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This practitioner article describes the recent implementation of critical media literacy (CML) activities in secondary teacher education at a large university in the Southwestern United States. Preservice teachers in a content area literacy course analyzed a variety of media coverage of events that occurred near their university. Using an analytical framewor…

Data literacy and education: Introduction and the challenges for our field

Leo Van Audenhove; Wendy Van den Broeck; Ilse Mariën · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Data literacy is a hot topic, which is currently discussed in many different fields from open data initiatives, statistics, computer societies, coding initiatives, and beyond. The resulting literature is inspiring but not always satisfying from the perspective of the media literacy scholarly field. The goals behind data literacy are often instrumental and ut…

Assessing and fostering college students’ algorithm awareness across online contexts

Jessica E. Brodsky; Dvora Zomberg; Kasey L. Powers; Patricia J. Brooks · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Internet users may fail to recognize how algorithms filter and personalize information. Two studies explored college students’ algorithm awareness across varying contexts. Study 1 examined Facebook users’ awareness of its algorithms (N = 222). Only about half recognized that Facebook does not show all their friends’ posts. These students more often reported …

The importance of consulting children and young people about data literacy

Judy Robertson; E. Kay M. Tisdall · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Given the importance of data skills to the economy and the skills shortage within data science, educational policy makers have identified the importance of including technical and analytical data skills in the school curriculum. An equally important aim is to educate children and young people to become data citizens who are aware of the current uses of data …

Data (il)literacy education as a hidden curriculum of the datafication of education

Pekka Mertala · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This position paper uses the concept of “hidden curriculum” as a heuristic device to analyze everyday data-related practices in formal education. Grounded in a careful reading of the theoretical literature, this paper argues that the everyday data-related practices of contemporary education can be approached as functional forms of data literacy education: de…

Data literacy on the road: Setting up a large-scale data literacy initiative in the DataBuzz project

Tom Seymoens; Leo Van Audenhove; Wendy Van den Broeck; Ilse Mariën · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper presents the DataBuzz Project. DataBuzz is a high-tech, mobile educational lab, which is housed in a 13-meter electric bus. Its specific goal is to increase the data literacy of different segments of society in the Brussels region through inclusive and participatory games and workshops. In this paper, we will explore how to carry out practical dat…

Rapid shifts in educators’ perceptions of data literacy priorities

Kristin Fontichiaro; Melissa P. Johnston · DOAJ Open Access Articles

To meet the challenges of a data-driven society, high school students need new arrays of literacy skills. In the United States, school librarians, who work across disciplines, are well-positioned to help students improve their data practice, but they first need new domain knowledge. This article presents findings from an evaluating survey and session evaluat…

Media Literacy and American Education: An Exploration with Détournement

Seth D French; Jacob Campbell · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Many competing voices are speaking about the state of American education and how it should be reformed in the best interest of students. Topics such as teachers unions, charter schools, and standardized tests are at the center of many of these discussions. How do we decipher what to believe amid such conflicting perspectives concerning these topics and other…