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Smartphone Apps in Education: Students Create Videos to Teach Smartphone Use as Tool for Learning

Kara E. Clayton; Amanda Murphy · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Smartphones are regular classroom accessories. Educators should work with children to understand the capacity of smartphones for learning and civic engagement, rather than being a classroom distraction. This research supports a collaborative project the authors engaged in with students in two states to discover what the perception of smartphone use was by st…

Book Review: Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools by Vanessa Domine

Hailee K Dunn · DOAJ Open Access Articles

“Media violence is made to attract and entertain people”: Responses to Media Literacy Lessons on the Effects of and Institutional Motives behind Media Violence

Laras Sekarasih; Kimberly R Walsh; Erica Scharrer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study investigated the following research question: How do sixth-graders respond to a media literacy lesson that was designed to, among other goals, introduce the concept of the presence of commercial interest in media production, particularly regarding the prevalence of media violence? Forty-seven responses were analyzed thematically using constant com…

Developing Media Literacy: Managing Fear and Moving Beyond

Katherine G. Fry · DOAJ Open Access Articles

One way to view the development of the media literacy movement is through the various different ways in which strains of media literacy education have been called on to allay fears that accompanying new media technologies. This article focuses on how one media literacy organization,The LAMP, deals with two very different arenas —the internet safety arena and…

Measuring News Media Literacy

Adam Maksl; Seth Ashley; Stephanie Craft · DOAJ Open Access Articles

News media literacy refers to the knowledge and motivations needed to identify and engage with journalism. This study measured levels of news media literacy among 500 teenagers using a new scale measure based on Potter’s model of media literacy and adapted to news media specifically. The adapted model posits that news media literate individuals think deeply …

Guiding Digital and Media Literacy Development in Arab Curricula Through Understanding Media Uses of Arab Youth

Jad P Melki · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The role of new media in the Arab uprisings and the news of widespread surveillance of digital and mobile media have triggered a renewed interest in Arab audiences research, particularly as it pertains to these audiences’ critical abilities and digital media literacy competencies. Taken for granted have been Arab youth’s widespread use of social media for ac…

Dusty but Mighty: Using Radio in the Critical Media Literacy Classroom

Miglena S. Todorova · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In a culture dominated by images, what is the capacity of radio-making to enact the ideals and meet the objectives of critical medial literacy education that empowers learners and expands democracy? This article conceptualizes a radio-based critical media literacy approach drawing upon a course project called “Borderless Radio,” where fifty-two students in a…

Parents’ Views of Video Games: Habitus Forms in the Context of Parental Mediation

Henrike Friedrichs; Friederike von Gross; Katharina Herde; Uwe Sander · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper is based on a research project conducted in 2014 on parental attitudes to, and their mediation of, video games. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 28 parents (14 couples) explored their media-related habitus, their media-educational habitus and the interaction between the habitus. The results show, inter alia, that the media-related habi…

Digital Media Literacy in a Sports, Popular Culture, and Literature Course

Carolyn Fortuna · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Abstract: This article considers how media sports culture is an apt space for digital media literacy instruction. Describing a senior year high school English course that requires students to deconstruct and compose with sports media texts, the author outlines how learning modules, analysis of curated collections of texts through heuristics, and mentor texts…

Helping Students Understand Media: Examining the Efficacy of Interdisciplinary Media Training at the University Level

Hans C. Schmidt · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Crowded curriculums and restrictive program requirements often mean that comprehensive media literacy education is impractical at the university level, and that media literacy competencies can be addressed only in the form of narrowly focused lessons integrated into existing classes. This study considers the extent to which such limited lessons can lead to t…

The Role of Collaboration and Feedback in Advancing Student Learning in Media Literacy and Video Production

Carl M. Casinghino · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Educators can learn many lessons as they implement collaborative project strategies, manage appropriate feedback, and measure communicative skill development in the media literacy classroom. This article examines case studies and learning outcomes in a high school digital production classroom taught by a veteran media literacy educator.

Book Review: The Digital Youth Network: cultivating digital media citizenship in urban communities

Patrick Johnson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media-educational Habitus of Future Educators in the Context of Education in Day-Care Centers

Henrike Friedrichs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This doctoral research study has three research questions: (1) How are the forms of media-educational habitus of future educators shaped? (2) What conditions influence whether or not media education is done in day-care centers? The qualitative study (9/2011-6/2012) consists of six semi-structured interviews with media education teachers in educator training,…

The New Curricula: Propelling the Growth of Media Literacy Education

Tessa Jolls · DOAJ Open Access Articles

As new online and cellular technologies advance, the implications for the traditional textbook model of curricular instruction are profound. The ability to construct, share, collaborate on and publish new instructional materials marks the beginning of a global revolution in curricula development. Research-based media literacy frameworks can be applied to all…

Book Review: Children, Film and Literacy

Yonty Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Building a Global Community for Media Education Research

Paul Mihailidis; Renee Hobbs; Julian McDougall; Richard Berger · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital Competence Assessment. A Proposal for Operationalizing the Critical Dimension

Ida Cortoni; Veronica Lo Presti; Pierluigi Cervelli · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The European Commission considers the development of digital competences a strategic action to spread and to develop a more active digital participation of citizens. The objective is to increase the level of digital competence in the European citizens up to 2015 and to reduce the number of those who don’t use new technologies and don't surf the net. At the b…

Book Review: (Re)Thinking Orientalism: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy

Antonio Lopez · DOAJ Open Access Articles

(Re)Thinking Orientalism’s primary aim is to offer a pedagogical model for using graphic narratives in the classroom to explore and contest what Jones calls a dominant “visual Orientalist” discourse in Western media. Graphic narratives are fiction and nonfiction stories told in comic form, and can range from graphic novels to comic journalism. The book also …

Book Review: Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited

Lance E Mason · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Media: Short-Term Summer Program Emphasizes Project Based and Social-Emotional Learning.

William R Bowden · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article purports the idea that summer programs that experiment with media literacy and social-emotional learning could potentially affect students’ academic performance. Based on a six-week program, working with rising eighth grade students in a low-income school district, this program allowed students to work on media projects while trying to develop s…