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Web-based Media Literacy to Prevent Tobacco Use among High School Students

Jane S Phelps-Tschang; Elizabeth Miller; Kristen R Rice; Brian A. Primack · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Facilitator-led smoking media literacy (SML) programs have improved media literacy and reduced intention to smoke. However, these programs face limitations including high costs and barriers to standardization. We examined the efficacy of a Web-based media literacy program in improving smoking media literacy skills among adolescents. Sixty-six 9th grade stude…

The Think Aloud Approach. A Promising Tool for Online Reading Comprehension

Stefania Carioli; Andrea Peru · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite its unquestionable interest from a theoretical and practical point of view, so far there has been little research on online reading and there is a lack of attention paid to this topic in most European educational institutions. In particular, primary and secondary school teachers are not adequately trained on how and when to intervene to support stude…

Three-Year-Old Photographers: Educational Mediation as a Basis for Visual Literacy via Digital Photography in Early Childhood

Arielle Friedman · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The study examines two years of an educational program for children aged three to four, based on the use of digital cameras. It assesses the program’s effects on the children and adults involved in the project, and explores how they help the youngsters acquire visual literacy. Operating under the assumption that formal curricula usually marginalize visual an…

The Issues and Challenges of Assessing Media Literacy Education

Evelien A Schilder; Barbara B. Lockee; D. Patrick Saxon · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the media literacy literature, the challenges associated with assessment have, to a great extent, been ignored. The purpose of this mixed methods study was therefore to explore the views of media literacy scholars and professionals on assessment challenges through qualitative interviews (n = 10) with the intent of using this information to develop a quant…

Political Engagement During a Presidential Election Year: A Case Study of Media Literacy Students

Elia M Powers; Susan D Moeller; Yacong Yuan · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This exploratory, mixed-methods study uses data gathered during the previous U.S. presidential election in 2012 to evaluate student political engagement and digital culture. Survey results and media diary entries revealed that college students enrolled in a media literacy course during Super Tuesday or Election Day gravitated toward low-barrier political act…

Professional Resource: The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015)

Benjamin Thevenin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

What Do You Use Mobile Phones for? A Creative Method of Thematic Drawing with Adolescents in Rural China

Jiachun Hong · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study sets out to explore Chinese adolescents’ subjectivities toward the use of mobile phones, and reveal the dynamic relationship among students, parents, and school concerning mobile phone usage in rural China. Twenty-one high school students were recruited, and asked to draw a painting that expresses their perceptions of mobile phones in relation to …

Padawan’s Journey: Remixing Star Wars Radio for Adolescent Literacy Education

Mark J. Davis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The Star Wars phenomenon motivates adolescents who may be disengaged in the classroom. The wealth of visual content may overshadow the power of the music, sound effects, and dialogue. In literacy education, skills are often practiced by reading and discussing traditional texts. In this digital literacy project, struggling readers remixed the Star Wars canon …

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 …

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

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…

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…