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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…

Media, Culture, and Education: One Teacher’s Journey through the Mediated Intersections

Crystal L. Beach · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Today’s classrooms often have a plethora of new ways of reading and writing entering the room, but too often these new ways of “doing” are disregarded and checked at the door. For this reason, one educator shares her journey through the mediated intersections of media, culture, and education. In this piece, she explores how literacy transformations are impac…

The Role of Collaboration and Feedback in Advancing Student Learning in Media Literacy and Video Production

Carl M. Casinghino · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Educators can learn many lessons as they implement collaborative project strategies, manage appropriate feedback, and measure communicative skill development in the media literacy classroom. This article examines case studies and learning outcomes in a high school digital production classroom taught by a veteran media literacy educator.

Book Review: The Digital Youth Network: cultivating digital media citizenship in urban communities

Patrick Johnson · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Book Review: Children, Film and Literacy

Yonty Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Building a Global Community for Media Education Research

Paul Mihailidis; Renee Hobbs; Julian McDougall; Richard Berger · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital Competence Assessment. A Proposal for Operationalizing the Critical Dimension

Ida Cortoni; Veronica Lo Presti; Pierluigi Cervelli · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The European Commission considers the development of digital competences a strategic action to spread and to develop a more active digital participation of citizens. The objective is to increase the level of digital competence in the European citizens up to 2015 and to reduce the number of those who don’t use new technologies and don't surf the net. At the b…

Book Review: (Re)Thinking Orientalism: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy

Antonio Lopez · DOAJ Open Access Articles

(Re)Thinking Orientalism’s primary aim is to offer a pedagogical model for using graphic narratives in the classroom to explore and contest what Jones calls a dominant “visual Orientalist” discourse in Western media. Graphic narratives are fiction and nonfiction stories told in comic form, and can range from graphic novels to comic journalism. The book also …

Media Literacy, Education & (Civic) Capability: A Transferable Methodology

Julian McDougall; Richard Berger; Pete Fraser; Marketa Zezulkova · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article shares research into the relationship between a formal media educational encounter in the UK and the broad objectives for media and information literacy education circulating in mainland Europe and the US. A pilot study, developed with a special interest group of the United Kingdom Literacy Association, applied a three part methodology for comp…

Book Review: Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited

Lance E Mason · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Media: Short-Term Summer Program Emphasizes Project Based and Social-Emotional Learning.

William R Bowden · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article purports the idea that summer programs that experiment with media literacy and social-emotional learning could potentially affect students’ academic performance. Based on a six-week program, working with rising eighth grade students in a low-income school district, this program allowed students to work on media projects while trying to develop s…

Measuring New Media Literacies: Towards the Development of a Comprehensive Assessment Tool

Ioana Literat · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study assesses the psychometric properties of a newly tested self-report assessment tool for media literacy, based on the twelve new media literacy skills (NMLs) developed by Jenkins et al. (2006). The sample (N=327) consisted of normal volunteers who completed a comprehensive online survey that measured their NML skills, media exposure, digital partici…

Quality Media Literacy Education. A Tool for Teachers and Teacher Educators of Italian Elementary Schools

Damiano Felini · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The dissemination of good practices in MLE requires a more rigorous definition of their characteristics, including criteria and indicators to measure their quality. This article – after reflecting on the meaning and function of identifying good MLE practices – presents a systematic framework of 35 indicators for good MLE activities in Italian elementary scho…

Review: Slam School: Learning Through Conflict in the Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Classroom

Emily Bailin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

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

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…