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A Story of Conflict and Collaboration: Media Literacy, Video Production and Disadvantaged Youth

Elizaveta Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy educators talk about the importance of developing essential social skills, such as collaboration, by using video production in the classroom. Video production with disadvantaged youth can also play a role of art therapy, as students use their creativity to come to terms with traumatizing pasts. This paper offers an account of a media literacy …

Review: The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us about Responsible Media Practice

Ju-Pong Lin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Review: Arts, Media and Justice: Multimodal Explorations with Youth (2013)

Kelsey Greene · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Creating Critical Viewers

Renee Cherow-O'Leary · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This essay is a personal reflection on the implementation of Creating Critical Viewers, a national media literacy program sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), an industry association, in 1995. The television industry’s decision to develop a media literacy curriculum in the 1990s was a powerful statement by certain broadc…

Cinekyd: Exploring the Origins of Youth Media Production

Renee Hobbs; David Cooper Moore · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Why History Matters for Media Literacy Education

Michael RobbGrieco · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The ways people have publicly discussed and written about media literacy in the past have great bearing on how citizens, educators and learners are able to think about and practice their own media literacy. Our concepts of media literacy have evolved over time in response to changing contexts of media studies and educational discourses as well as changes in …

Introduction to Media Literacy History

Sarah Bordac · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Why is it important for us to consider the history of media literacy? Beyond forging connections of the past to the present, exploring the history of the field can deepen intellectual curiosity and understanding for those who work in media literacy education, ignite interest in others, and drive investigation into understanding the relationships of the facet…

Media Now: A Historical Review of a Media Literacy Curriculum

Yonty Friesem; Diane Quaglia Beltran; Ed Crane · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The Elizabeth Thoman Archive at the Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, has the last complete kit of one of the milestones in the early chronology of media literacy, the 1972 Media Now curriculum. This curriculum was the first of its kind, using self-contained lesson modules that were part of a larger series of kits, tex…

Teaching about Propaganda: An Examination of the Historical Roots of Media Literacy

Renee Hobbs; Sandra McGee · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Contemporary propaganda is ubiquitous in our culture today as public relations and marketing efforts have become core dimensions of the contemporary communication system, affecting all forms of personal, social and public expression. To examine the origins of teaching and learning about propaganda, we examine some instructional materials produced in the 1930…

The Core Concepts: Fundamental to Media Literacy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Tessa Jolls; Carolyn Wilson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

“New media” does not change the essence of what media literacy is, nor does it affect its ongoing importance in society. Len Masterman, a UK-based professor, published his ground-breaking books in the 1980’s and laid the foundation for media literacy to be taught to elementary and secondary students in a systematic way that is consistent, replicable, measura…

The Hyperreality of Daniel Boorstin

Stephanie L Viens · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Early media theorists can help us to link the past and present of media literacy to pose new questions and gain new knowledge. Historian, author and Librarian on Congress Daniel Boorstin (1914 – 2004) played an important role in increasing public awareness of the constructed nature of media representations. Connections are explored between constructed realit…

Review of “The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World” by Cyndy Scheibe and Faith Rogow

Julie Smith · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article reviews “The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World” by Cyndy Scheibe and Faith Rogow

Federal Agency Efforts to Advance Media Literacy in Substance Abuse Prevention

Alan M Levitt; Robert W. Denniston · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article describes and reflects upon efforts to generate greater support for media literacy and critical thinking within the strategies and programs of the Federal government, primarily in agencies with an interest in youth substance abuse prevention. Additionally, some of the inherent challenges and obstacles that impacted the ability to expand these ef…

Surveying Parental Mediation: Connections, Challenges and Questions for Media Literacy

Kelly Mendoza · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper examines three strategies of parental mediation—coviewing, restrictive mediation, and active mediation—in order to make connections, challenge, and raise questions for media literacy. Coviewing, whether it is intentional practice, or whether it functions to promote media literacy, is explored. Restrictive mediation, how it connects to protectionis…

The Past, Present, and Future of Media Literacy Education

Renee Hobbs; Amy Jensen · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy education in the United States is actively focused on the instructional methods and pedagogy of media literacy, integrating theoretical and critical frameworks rising from constructivist learning theory, media studies and cultural studies scholarship. This work has arisen from a legacy of media and technology use in education throughout the 20…

A Social History of Media, Technology and Schooling

Vanessa Domine · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article explores the literature in the intersecting fields of media, technology and schooling in the United States across the past two centuries. It organizes the research from a social-historical perspective through a fictionalized interview with an archetypal third-generation urban public school teacher. This topography illustrates the problems and po…

Measuring the Effects of a Media Literacy Program on Conflict and Violence

Erica Scharrer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A 5-session curricular unit on the topic of face-to-face conflict mediation and on-screen media violence was administered to 85 sixth graders. Repeated measures analyses were employed to study the 57 students for whom matched questionnaires were available. Results show students became more likely to choose a non-aggressive approach to two of three conflict s…

“Sounds Great, But I Don’t Have Time!” Helping Teachers Meet Their Goals and Needs

Cynthia Scheibe · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Teaching Media Literacy in Less Than an Hour

Faith Rogow · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Obtaining, Processing, and Constructing English: Blogging in the ESL Classroom

Glori H. Smith · DOAJ Open Access Articles