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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

Review: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use For Media Literacy Education (2008)

Chris Boulton · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The First Step is the Hardest: Finding Connections in Media Literacy Education

Paul Mihailidis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Through a series of focus groups, this study explores how students, at the conclusion of a university-level media literacy course, see media’s necessary role in democratic society. It is a narrative inspired by the core belief of the media literacy discipline that if people are effectively taught the critical skills to access, evaluate, analyze, and produce …

Differentiating Between “The” Media and “Our” Media

Beau Beaudoin · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Today’s students are both consumers and producers in a participatory media culture of Facebook, YouTube and other online formats that bear both similarities and differences to traditional films, television and other professionally produced programming. This article describes the challenges of translating media education principles that were successfully util…

Media Literacy Teacher Talk: Interpretation, Value, and Implementation

Debby Deal; Stephanie Flores-Koulish; James Sears · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper analyzes how 10 teachers in a literacy master’s program interpret, value, and implement media literacy education following a semester-long course. Interview data are analyzed using the Belenky et al’s Women’s Ways of Knowing framework. While all participants valued what they understood media literacy to mean, some confused ML with technology. Impl…

They’ll Need This in College: Teacher Beliefs and the Construction of the Secondary English Text

Lydia Brauer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Despite the complex and evolving ways in which contemporary texts are produced, mediated, circulated, and engaged, secondary English texts in the United States remain predominantly canonical and paper-based. Why such a resolutely stable classroom canon, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century a singular medium? While the answer to this question is n…

The Epistemological Equation: Integrating Media Analysis into the Core Curriculum

Chris Sperry · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Chris Sperry gave this keynote address at the National Association for Media Literacy Education conference in Detroit on August 4, 2009. Chris is the Director of Curriculum and Staff Development for Project Look Sharp, a media literacy initiative at Ithaca College founded in 1995. He has taught secondary social studies and media studies at the Lehman Alterna…

Lights, Camera, Action: Using Film and Graphic Novels to Explore Themes of Power and Social Control in the High School English Classroom

Dolores A. D'Angelo · DOAJ Open Access Articles