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Piloting journalistic learning in a rural Trump-supportive community: A reverse mentorship approach

Ed Madison · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Partisan politics challenge educators to determine how best to navigate discussions of controversial subjects within their classrooms. This can be particularly true for new educators in the early stages of developing their confidence and classroom management skills. This qualitative case study uses situated learning and the communities of practice theoretica…

“Deeper than Rap”: Cultivating racial identity and critical voices through Hip-hop recording practices in the music classroom

Jabari M Evans · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Using a pilot program in one Chicago elementary school as a case study, this article reports findings of an ethnographic investigation on the impact of Hip-hop based music education at the elementary school level. The findings describe how this program facilitated a process by which the youth participants were empowered through (a) identity building within a…

Professors’ perspectives on truth-seeking and new literacy

Zachary W. Arth; Darrin J. Griffin; William J. Earnest · DOAJ Open Access Articles

New media and new literacy are essential in our contemporary paradigms of education and communication research. Though truth-seeking is one of the primary objectives inherent in higher education, the process for students may be less clear than it may be for trained academics or professors. The current study sought to explore how professors recommend that stu…

History of Youth Media Production in Maine 1960-2010

Gemma A.P. Scott · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Research in media literacy seeks to understand multiple branches of inquiry, including the practice of media production. Youth in Maine have produced media independently and in organized venues for more than 50 years. This paper describes results from surveying primary source materials produced by youth in Maine between 1960 and the 2000s. Research started w…

Book Review: Fact vs. fiction: Teaching critical thinking skills in the age of fake news

Morgan Carter · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News, is a book full of resources and instructional strategies to help educators teach media literacy skills in today’s fake news environment. Arguably, media literacy skills are needed now more than ever, and this review provides a brief overview and key takeaways from each chapter.…

Abolish censorship and adopt critical media literacy: A proactive approach to media and youth in the Middle East

Abeer AlNajjar · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper challenges the dominant patronizing approach to youth and media in the Middle East and argues that the calls for censorship of youth media exposure are obsolete and counterproductive. It argues that although censorship advocates have a legitimate concern over media risks, their approaches are ineffective, short-lived and alienating, disregarding t…

MEDIACY: A way to enrich media literacy

Eva Berger; Robert K. Logan; Anat Ringel; Andrey Miroshnichenko · DOAJ Open Access Articles

We propose that the discipline or practice of media literacy defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms can be enriched and made more effective by incorporating two of Marshall McLuhan’s insights into the nature of media. The first insight is that the effects of media that are independent of their content and i…

Radio Waves and Curriculum Pathways: Jamaican “At Risk” Learners Construct Media

Paulette J. Feraria · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This paper explores radio play as an alternative space for learning language and literacy for Jamaican students labelled as ‘at-risk’ learners. Through the creation of a make-believe radio station in the classroom, students developed oral language skills as a necessary precursor for social literacy. They connected reading and writing activities and the simul…

The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy

Monica Bulger; Patrick Davison · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media literacy has become a center of gravity for countering fake news, and a diverse array of stakeholders – from educators to legislators, philanthropists to technologists – have pushed significant resources toward media literacy programs. Media literacy, however, cannot be treated as a panacea. This paper provides a foundation for evaluating media literac…

Too Much of a Good Thing? How Teachers’ Enthusiasm May Lead to Protectionism in Exploring Media & Gender

Elizaveta Friesem · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Challenges of media and gender literacy classes include the danger of steering students towards “right” interpretations of media texts while simplifying the complex relationship between audiences and media texts. The current paper describes a case study that focused on two high school teachers who were motivated by their protectionist concerns to analyze med…

Teaching Social Justice: Intergenerational Service-Learning in Digital Media Course

Margaret O. Finucane; Linda M. Seiter; Nathan C. Gehlert · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Digital media play an increasingly dominant role in reinforcing and challenging power inequality in social and institutional relationships. This paper describes how a service-learning component engaged students in community-based interactions that not only deepened their understanding of course content but also increased their commitment to diversity, commun…

Youth and the City: Reflective Photography as a Tool of Urban Voice

Roman Gerodimos · DOAJ Open Access Articles

YYoung people’s engagement with urban public space has been facing a number of obstacles that reflect a lack of understanding of their needs, values and priorities. The emergence of digital devices and social media as integral elements of youth culture adds further urgency to the need to understand how young people themselves visually articulate their percep…

Media Literacy Policy in Flanders – Belgium: From Parliamentary Discussions to Public Policy

Leo Van Audenhove; Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe; Ilse Mariën · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The discussion on media literacy in Flanders starts in the Flemish Parliament in 2006. It will take until 2013 before the Flemish Government will set up the Knowledge Center for Media Literacy—Mediawijs. Flanders is therefore rather late in establishing a dedicated institute for media literacy. The same can be said for developing a formal policy framework in…

Food for Thought: A Novel Media Literacy Intervention on Food Advertising Targeting Young Children and their Parents

Rachel M Powell; Tyra Gross · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The prevalence of obese children has tripled during the past three decades. While lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating have been the primary focus of public health efforts, media has a significant influence on food choices and food consumption. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine if a media literacy intervention would increase kno…

Teaching Girls Online Skills: Results of the Wikid Grrls Intervention

Stine Eckert; Jade Metzger-Riftkin; Joanna Nurmis · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In 2013-2016 we designed and implemented Wikid Grrls, a 10-week after-school workshop series to teach online skills to middle school girls in U.S. schools. We interviewed and surveyed 80 participants before and after the workshops. Girls’ online skills and confidence in them increased measurably for the duration of the workshop series. Participants expressed…

Foregrounding Morality: Encouraging Parental Media Literacy Intervention Using the TARES Test for Ethical Persuasion

Kevin J Pearce; Stanley Baran · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In the United States, children are exposed to literally hundreds of thousands of television commercials a year and virtually every aspect of kids’ lives are replete with commercial messages. The negative effects of this exposure are well documented. Yet, there remains very little regulation or limit on advertising to children beyond that which exists for adu…

Deconstructing Media in the College Classroom: A Longitudinal Critical Media Literacy Intervention

Andrea M. Bergstrom; Mark Flynn; Clay Craig · DOAJ Open Access Articles

While many studies have addressed the impact of media literacy interventions on knowledge of specific topic areas, few have explored improvements in media literacy skills as outcome measures. This study analyzed the impact of a media literacy intervention on participants’ critical thinking skills and understanding of media literacy principles by addressing t…

How Brazil’s Unified University Entrance Exam (ENEM) Impacts Media Literacy Education

Danilo Venticinque; Andrew Whitworth · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article discusses the outcomes of research into the media literacy aspects of ENEM (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio), Brazil's unified university entrance exam, which contains a significant number of exam questions based on excerpts from newspaper articles, online news and other media sources. Through content analysis, these questions are classified acco…

Book Review: Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices: Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

Lucie Roemer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Media Literacy and Climate Change in a Post-Truth Society

James S Damico; Mark Baildon; Alexandra Panos · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this article we draw from ecolingusitics (Stibbe, 2015) and a civic media literacy framework (Author, in press; Masyada & Washington, 2016) to consider what happened when three pairs of preservice teachers with different academic backgrounds and climate change beliefs jointly evaluated the reliability of two media sources that make opposing arguments abou…