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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…

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Thoman

Renee Hobbs · DOAJ Open Access Articles

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 …

Adapting New Media Literacies to Participatory Spaces: Social Media Literacy Practices of Multilingual Students

Osman Solmaz · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Approaching the new media literacies as social practices through the lens of Participatory Culture Framework, the present study adapted new media literacies to online social networks and examined the social media literacy practices of international graduate students (IGSs). The data was collected through an online survey of 90 IGSs, semi-structured interview…

Digital Media Production to Support Literacy for Secondary Students with Diverse Learning Abilities

April Marie Leach · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Producing digital media is a hands-on, inquiry-based mindful process that naturally embeds Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into literacy instruction, providing options for learning and assessment for a wide array of students with diverse learning abilities. Video production learning experiences acknowledge the cognitive talents of some student…

Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence

Elizabeth M Dalton · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing instruction to address the wide range of learner variation in today’s inclusive classrooms, can be applied effectively to broaden access, understanding, and engagement in digital and media literacy learning for ALL. UDL supports constructivist learning principles. UDL strategiesand methods encour…

Beyond Accessibility: How Media Literacy Education Addresses Issues of Disabilities

Yonty Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This special issue on media literacy and disability provides a variety of examples and case studies to showcase the importance of addressing issues of disability in the media literacy community. The literature on the intersection of media literacy and disability is slender but suggests four distinct uses of media for students with disabilities. However, none…

Teaching the Presidential Elections Using Media Literacy in the LD Classroom

Jaclyn K Siegel · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper examines how an educator at a school for students with learning disabilities (LD) used various types of media to engage her students, to develop their academic and executive functioning skills, and to heighten their awareness of media literacy and the 2012 and 2106 Presidential elections. Teacher-created curriculum materials and activities are pro…

The Book Trailer Project: Media Production within an integrated classroom

Karen Festa · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A special education co-teacher in an integrated elementary classroom describes key aspects of media literacy pedagogy for all students, including opportunities for critical analysis and creative media production. After elementary school students learned about author’s craft, purpose, theme/message, three types of writing, and target audience, they began look…

Access Denied: Ending the Exclusion of Disabled Students From Media Production Courses in Higher Education

Jayne Cubbage · DOAJ Open Access Articles

As the acceptance of media literacy increases among educators, media producers and consumers, one group is often missing from the dialogue—persons with disabilities. This absence is witnessed in the marginalized media depictions of the disabled. To gain entry into the media professions, some form of higher education is required. Using muted group theory as a…

Resources Review: Adaptive (podcast), Montreal*in/accessible (mobile app), Accessible Arcade Tables (DIY project)

Giuliana Cucinelli · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Thisresourcesreview spotlights a variety of DIY (do-it yourself) innovative media projects. Examples of these projects include: a podcast series on adaptive technologies, building mobile applications that allow participants to publish images, text and sound recordings, an interactive map that documents disability discrimination in the certain cities and the …

College Students' Motivations for Using Podcasts

Mun-Young Chung; Hyang-Sook Kim · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite potential benefits of podcasts for college education, little research has examined students’ psychological drives for using podcasts. To explore the relationship between the use of podcasts and college students’ appreciation of them, this study investigated students’ motivations, attitudes and behaviors with regard to podcasts use including their lea…

Debates about the Future of Media Literacy in Turkey

Ebubekir Cakmak; Sait Tuzel · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy has been widely debated in Turkey since the early 2000s and has been in the curriculum of the secondary schools as an optional subject for nearly a decade. During this time period, about four million students have received media literacy education. The multidisciplinary structure of media literacy has contributed to the interest of many resear…

Review: A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication: Youth Radio and Radio Arts in the Multilingual Classroom

Jillian M Belanger · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this review of Dana Walker's 2014 book A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication: Youth Radio and Radio Arts in the Multilingual Classroom, Jillian Belanger recounts the project's four main aims of media production, community engagement, student confidence, and language development, and offers insight to what made Walker's work engaging English Learners with y…

A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Measuring News Media Literacy

Emily K Vraga; Melissa Tully; John E Kotcher; Anne-Bennett Smithson; Melissa Broeckelman-Post · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Measuring news media literacy is important in order for it to thrive in a variety of educational and civic contexts. This research builds on existing measures of news media literacy and two new scales are presented that measure self-perceived media literacy (SPML) and perceptions of the value of media literacy (VML). Research with a larger sample of college …

Rap Music Literacy: A Case Study of Millennial Audience Reception to Rap Lyrics Depicting Independent Women

Mia Moody-Ramirez; Lakia M Scott · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Using a feminist lens and a constructivist approach as the theoretical framework, we used rap lyrics and videos to help college students explore mass media’s representation of the “independent” Black woman and the concept of “independence” in general. Students must be able to formulate their own concept of independence to counteract the messages and stereoty…

Review: Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children: Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers

Becky Michelson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Today’s youth are exposed to sexualized media at an alarming rate. The inundation of sexuality and gender stereotypes is further perpetuated by youth interactions with celebrity culture, the search for fame, and social media. In her book, Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children: Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers, Jennifer Shewmaker explains …

What do Facts Have to Do with It? Exploring Instructional Emphasis in the Stony Brook News Literacy Curriculum

Jennifer Fleming · DOAJ Open Access Articles

An analytic matrix comprised of multiple media literacy teaching and learning principles is conceptualized to examine a model of news literacy developed by journalism educators at Stony Brook University. The multidimensional analysis indicates that news literacy instructors focus on teaching students how to question and assess the veracity of news texts, and…