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A Phenomenological Investigation of Social Networking Site Privacy Awareness through a Media Literacy Lens

David Magolis; Audra Briggs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This research study focused on the social networking site (SNS) awareness of undergraduate students, examining their experiences through the type and extent of the information shared on their SNSs in order to discover the students’ experiences with SNS privacy. A phenomenological research approach was used to interview eight undergraduate to explore the ques…

Book Review: Making Media Studies by David Gauntlett

Antonio Lopez · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Making Media Studies is a collection of previously published and updated works by David Gauntlett, including his infamous essay, “Media Studies 2.0.” It explores ways in which the traditional media studies paradigm has been disrupted by prosumers and the practices of everyday people and DIY “makers” who are using the internet to learn, make things and share …

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…

Locating Community Action Outreach Projects in the Scholarship of Media Literacy Pedagogy

Heather Crandall · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper compares frameworks in recent critical media literacy scholarship with trends found in eight semesters of media literacy community action outreach assignments to explore how these frameworks can function as curricular tools for media literacy practitioners. Besides potential tools for media literacy pedagogy, this examination of recent literature …

Book Review: Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools by Vanessa Domine

Hailee K Dunn · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Living and Leading in a Digital Age: A Narrative Study of the Attitudes and Perceptions of School Leaders about Media Literacy

Kerrigan R Mahoney; Tehmina Khwaja · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Students graduating from K-12 education need media literacy skills to engage, participate, and learn in a world in which literacy must keep pace with rapidly changing technologies. Given the significant roles school administrators play in providing leadership and vision to their schools, this narrative study addresses the research question: What are school a…

Pendidikan orang dewasa dalam Alqur'an

Alfarabi, Mohammad · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

This study is aimed at explaining how the educational concept for adults in Alquran is carried out. There are six questions proposed as the formulation of the problems in this study i.e.: What are the principles of education for adults in Alquran?; What is Alquran’s perspective on adults’ learning readiness?; How is the learning concept through experience fo…

“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…

Connecting, Creating, and Composing: A Shared Multimodal Journey

Margaret B Krause · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Given the dynamic nature of our society, literacy conceptualizations are constantly being redefined. While print literacy continues to be the primary literacy within elementary classroom, the growing nature of technological capabilities, social networking, and multimodal affordances require educators to delve into explorations of how children can be successf…

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 …

Puppets on a String? How Young Adolescents Explore Gender and Health in Advertising

Deborah L. Begoray; Elizabeth M Banister; Joan Wharf Higgins; Robin Wilmot · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article presents qualitative research on young adolescents’ abilities in communicating and evaluating health messages in advertising especially how they understand and create gendered identities. A group of grade 6-8 students learned about media techniques and movie making. In groups divided by gender, they created iMovie advertisements for health activ…

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…

A Theory-Grounded Measure of Adolescents' Response to Media Literacy Interventions

Kathryn Greene; Itzhak Yanovitzky; Amanda Carpenter; Smita C. Banerjee; Kate Magsamen-Conrad; Michael L. Hecht; Elvira Elek · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy interventions offer relatively new and promising avenues for the prevention of risky health behaviors among children and adolescents, but current literature remains largely equivocal about their efficacy. We propose that (a) much of this ambiguity stems from the lack of conceptual clarity in the literature regarding the cognitive process throu…

Soviet Cineclubs: Baranov’s Film/Media Education Model

Alexander Fedorov; Elizaveta Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this paper we discuss a historical form of media literacy education that is still insufficiently explored in English-language literature: Soviet cineclubs. We focus on one particular cineclub that was created by a Soviet educator Oleg Baranov in the 1950s. We admit that Baranov’s teaching practices might have been rooted in and shaped by ideological requi…

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…

Critical Media Literacy and Gender: Teaching Middle School Students about Gender Stereotypes and Occupations

Laurel Puchner; Linda Markowitz; Mark Hedley · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study examined the effectiveness of the implementation of a small-scale critical media literacy curriculum unit focused on gender stereotypes, especially as they pertain to occupations. The research question was whether students exposed to the critical media literacy (CML) curriculum were more likely than students not exposed to believe: that women expe…

Investigating How MTV’s 16 & Pregnant May Be Used as Media Literacy Education with High-Risk Adolescents

Tracy Marie Scull; Rebecca Ortiz; Autumn Shafer; Jane Brown; Janis B. Kupersmidt; Katherine Suellentrop · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Reality television shows featuring teen pregnancy may be used as media literacy education tools to positively affect youth sexual health outcomes. Concerns, however, exist that such programming may glamorize teen pregnancy. The present study examined how viewing and discussing episodes of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, a reality television series about teen pregnanc…