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Food for Thought: A Novel Media Literacy Intervention on Food Advertising Targeting Young Children and their Parents

Rachel M Powell; Tyra Gross · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The prevalence of obese children has tripled during the past three decades. While lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating have been the primary focus of public health efforts, media has a significant influence on food choices and food consumption. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine if a media literacy intervention would increase kno…

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…

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…

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

Lucie Roemer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

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…

Winning The War On State-Sponsored Propaganda: Results From An Impact Study Of A Ukrainian News Media And Information Literacy Program

Erin Murrock; Joy Amulya; Mehri Druckman; Tetiana Liubyva · DOAJ Open Access Articles

From 2015-2016, IREX implemented a media literacy training program called Learn to Discern (L2D) that trained Ukrainian citizens to critically analyze news media messages and identify misinformation. In 2017, IREX conducted a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of news literacy skills, knowledge, and behavior using a stratified random sample of L2D particip…

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…

Exploring Echo-Systems: How Algorithms Shape Immersive Media Environments

James N. Cohen · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the lead up to the 2016 election, fake news often “outperformed” actual news in users’ social media feeds (Silverman, 2016). This paper attempts to analyze the process in which fake news proliferates social networking sites and presents a method of understanding and articulating ways in which personalized feeds are shaped by algorithm-based user feedback.…

Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators

Ellen Middaugh · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Amid growing concerns over the role of “fake news” in civic and political life, efforts to understand how to best prepare youth to evaluate and reason about online sources have gained a sense of urgency. However, less attention has been paid to how such skills are used in the context of the broader array of information behavior that is typical of civic and p…

The Complexity of Learning to Teach News Media in Social Studies Education

Mardi Schmeichel; Jim Garrett; Rachel Ranschaert; Joseph McAnulty; Shannon Thompson; Sonia Janis; Christopher Clark; Stephanie Yagata; Briana Bivens · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This research reports on data generated through an initial teacher certification program for secondary social studies teachers that introduced a specific and program-spanning focus on news media literacy. Growing out of the urgent need for pedagogies that address and promote critical engagement with the kinds of news media sources upon which civic decisions …

Using Virtual Exchange to Advance Media Literacy Competencies through Analysis of Contemporary Propaganda

Renee Hobbs; Christian Seyferth-Zapf; Silke Grafe · DOAJ Open Access Articles

With the rise of so-called fake news as a global phenomenon, interest in propaganda analysis has advanced along with the recognition of the fundamentally social process of interpretation. In this essay, we explore the use of cross-national dialogue among German and American undergraduate students who are seeking to better understand how media messages are in…

The Effect of the Implementation of Madrasah Based Curriculum Management and Parent's Role toward Students’ Learning Outcomes in Arabic Lesson at Madrasah Aliyah in Bagan Sinembah District Rokan Hilir Regency

Lindawati · UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau

Family is the smallest unit or community unit, often called the Primary Group. Parents are the first medium to color the lives of individuals. Once a child is born he immediately confronts his parents. Family is the first educator or teacher for the individual in determining the individual attitudes until he/she matures. Therefore, the role of parents in…

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Thoman

Renee Hobbs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The Basic Course in Communication, Media Literacy, and the College Curriculum

Evelyn M Ramsey · DOAJ Open Access Articles

V Various authors make excellent suggestions about the inclusion of public address, civility critical communication pedagogy and social justice into the basic course in communication studies. Media literacy pedagogy encourages students to actively and critically consider the messages they send and receive, critically assess all forms of communication, be enc…

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…