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Radio Waves and Curriculum Pathways: Jamaican “At Risk” Learners Construct Media

Paulette J. Feraria · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper explores radio play as an alternative space for learning language and literacy for Jamaican students labelled as ‘at-risk’ learners. Through the creation of a make-believe radio station in the classroom, students developed oral language skills as a necessary precursor for social literacy. They connected reading and writing activities and the simul…

The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy

Monica Bulger; Patrick Davison · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy has become a center of gravity for countering fake news, and a diverse array of stakeholders – from educators to legislators, philanthropists to technologists – have pushed significant resources toward media literacy programs. Media literacy, however, cannot be treated as a panacea. This paper provides a foundation for evaluating media literac…

Poverty, Literacy, and Social Transformation: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Digital Divide

Amy J. Bach; Todd Wolfson; Jessica K. Crowell · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Harnessing scholarship focused on literacy and poverty, in this article we aim to complicate the common understanding of the digital divide. First, we argue that the dominant literature on the digital divide misses broader connections between technological exclusion and broader forms of economic and social exclusion. Accordingly, and following recent qualita…

Too Much of a Good Thing? How Teachers’ Enthusiasm May Lead to Protectionism in Exploring Media & Gender

Elizaveta Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Challenges of media and gender literacy classes include the danger of steering students towards “right” interpretations of media texts while simplifying the complex relationship between audiences and media texts. The current paper describes a case study that focused on two high school teachers who were motivated by their protectionist concerns to analyze med…

What Do Preservice Teachers Think about Teaching Media Literacy?: An Exploratory Study Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

Sarah Gretter; Aman Yadav · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite the numerous benefits of media & information literacy for students in today’s digital society, the lack of teacher preparation in teaching media & information literacy skills suggests that the societal rationale for students becoming media literate and the sustainable preparation of teachers in that area may differ. The purpose of this exploratory st…

Teaching Social Justice: Intergenerational Service-Learning in Digital Media Course

Margaret O. Finucane; Linda M. Seiter; Nathan C. Gehlert · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital media play an increasingly dominant role in reinforcing and challenging power inequality in social and institutional relationships. This paper describes how a service-learning component engaged students in community-based interactions that not only deepened their understanding of course content but also increased their commitment to diversity, commun…

Youth and the City: Reflective Photography as a Tool of Urban Voice

Roman Gerodimos · DOAJ Open Access Articles

YYoung people’s engagement with urban public space has been facing a number of obstacles that reflect a lack of understanding of their needs, values and priorities. The emergence of digital devices and social media as integral elements of youth culture adds further urgency to the need to understand how young people themselves visually articulate their percep…

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…

Media Literacy and Response to Terror News

Daniel Bergan; Heysung Lee · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Increased fear and threat toward terrorism in the current American society is largely due to vivid news coverages, as explained by cultivation theory and mean world syndrome. Media literacy has potential to reduce this perception of fear and threat, such as people high on media literacy will be less likely to be affected by terror news. We focus on represent…

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…

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…

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 …

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…