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The Relationship Between Adhd Symptomology, Executive Functions, Morality, And Humor, Hyun Jin Chung, Lisa Weyandt, Genvieve Verdi, Anthony Swentosky, Marisa Marraccini, Michael Varejao, Drew Wood, Julia Demagistris, Leah Coffey, Lindsay Davis, Bergljot Gyda Gudmundsdottir, Kyle Turcotte

Psychology Faculty Publications

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and impulsivity/hyperactivity and is estimated to affect 3% to 7% of the school population (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In the majority of cases the disorder persists into adolescence and adulthood (Barkley, Murphy, & Fischer, 2008; Simon, Czobor, Bálint, Mészáros & Bitter, 2009). Although many studies have reported on the relationship between ADHD and younger children, there are fewer studies examining this with older participants. Recent research indicates that increasing numbers of high school students with ADHD are pursuing college (Wolf, Simkowitz, & Carlson, 2009). While the exact rates of …

Curricular Affairs Committee Report #508 With Appendices, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

Finding Their Way: How Public Library Users Wayfind, Lauren H. Mandel

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Faculty Publications

A multi-method case study research design, guided by Passini's conceptual framework of wayfinding, was employed to investigate library user wayfinding behavior within the entry area of a medium-sized public library facility. The case study research design included document review of the library's wayfinding information system; unobtrusive observation of library user wayfinding behavior; intensive interviews with library users to discuss their views on wayfinding in the library; and an expert review with library staff and a library wayfinding and signage expert to validate research findings. Overall, the study found library users' wayfinding behavior to be generally inconsistent over time, but that …

Social Support And Smoking Abstinence Among Incarcerated Adults In The United States: A Longitudinal Study, Beth Bock, Cheryl E. Lopes, Jacob J. Van Den Berg, Mary B. Roberts, L.A.R. Stein, Rosemarie A. Martin, Stephen A. Martin, Jennifer G. Clarke

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background:

In the United States, tobacco use among prisoners is nearly three times that of the general population. While many American prisons and jails are now tobacco-free, nearly all inmates return to smoking as soon as they are released back into the community.

Methods:

To better understand the role that personal relationships may play in enabling return to smoking, we enrolled former-smokers who were inmates in a tobacco-free prison. Baseline assessments were conducted six weeks prior to inmates’ scheduled release and included measures of smoking prior to incarceration, motivation, confidence and plans for remaining quit after release. We also assessed …

Public Services Annual Report 2012-2013, Deborah Mongeau

Public Services Reports

Annual report of the Public Services Department of the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

A Media Literate Approach To Developing Diversity Education, Fernando Naiditch

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article describes a classroom project developed in a course on diversity education that required pre-service teachers to use media literacy as a way to cross cultural borders and reach out to an online partner to exchange information and learn about different ways of relating to the world and interpreting cultural phenomena. Students kept a journal in which they recorded and reflected upon their experiences. The project resulted in an increased awareness of the potential of social networks and online learning platforms in helping students connect to different people, engage in cross-cultural communication and participate in new online communities.

Exploring The Usefulness Of School Education About Risks On Social Network Sites: A Survey Study, Ellen Vanderhoven, Tammy Schellens, Martin Valcke

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The growing popularity of social network sites (SNS) is causing concerns about privacy and security, especially with teenagers, since they show various forms of unsafe behavior on SNS. It has been put forth by researchers, teachers, parents, and teenagers that school is ideally placed to educate teens about risks on SNS and to teach youngsters how to use SNS safely. Privacy attitudes also need to be taken into account if we want to decrease the amount of unsafe behavior. However, there is a lack of research that focuses on the role and impact of school education on privacy attitudes or …

Review: International Perspectives On Youth Media: Cultures Of Production And Education (2011), Marketa Zezulkova

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

Developing An Ethics Of Youth Media Production Using Media Literacy, Identity, & Modality, Damiana Gibbons

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This critical, theoretical paper conceptualizes what determines an ethics for youth media production. Through discussions of media literacy, identity, and multimodality, I attempt to shift the question away from “What are the ethical ways in which youth use media?” toward the question “What are the ethics we have created as media literacy educators within which youth create media?” I assert that we must widen our lens to revision ethics as a complex interplay of definitions of media literacy, representations of youth identities, and understandings of modality as we move toward envisioning what constitutes an ethics of youth media production.

Developing Multimodal Academic Literacies Among College Freshmen, Gloria E. Jacobs

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article describes a semester-long freshman learning community in which multimodal texts were used as primary texts along with traditional texts to support students’ academic literacy skills. Analysis shows that an expository video created by students contains elements of academic literacies and qualities of multimodal texts. An unexpected finding was the presence of play within the process and product. These elements combine to create multimodal academic literacies. The author argues that multimodal academic literacies should be taught alongside traditional essayist forms in order to create rich learning opportunities.

Framing The Future Of Fanfiction: How The New York Times’ Portrayal Of A Youth Media Subculture Influences Beliefs About Media Literacy Education, Drew Emanuel Berkowitz

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article discusses how online fanfiction communities, their members, and their literacy practices are portrayed within popular and news media discourses. Many media literacy scholars believe these youth media subcultures practice complex and sophisticated forms of “new media” literacy. However, when educators attempt to incorporate these practices into K-12 literacy programs, the public’s reactions may be heavily influenced by the media’s documented patterns of marginalizing, dismissing, and denouncing youth subcultures. This study employs frame and critical discourse analysis in order to examine how the news media’s portrayal of fanfiction shapes and reflects the beliefs of teachers, students, and parents.

Review: Rethinking Popular Culture And Media (2011), David Cooper Moore

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

What Dirty Dancing Taught Me About Media Literacy Education, Robin Fuxa

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The author reflects on her youthful viewing of Dirty Dancing on video against her parents’ wishes as one example of the ineffectiveness of a protectionist approach to media. She offers ideas on how she and her students (pre-service and in-service educators) think through how to navigate selection of materials for effective media literacy education. Concern over material selection is not new. Just as educators have done with print media, we, together with our students, must consider student needs and interests as we view and create media materials that both reflect and inspire critical interaction with media.

Media Narratives And Possibilities For Teachers’ Embodied Concepts Of Self, Jane S. Townsend, Patrick A. Ryan

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Non-print media of radio, television, and film tell narratives about the image and practice of teachers, but how might these media narratives shape conceptions of teachers as well as teachers’ conceptions of themselves? What elements of the media narratives do we incorporate and reject in the narratives that we construct about their professional identities? How do these media and personal narratives interact with larger social narratives, such as the purposes for schools and gender role expectations? We take a historical view of the shaping power of media narratives and the contexts in which they flourished by looking to past depictions …

Exploring The Borderlands Between Media And Health: Conceptualizing ‘Critical Media Health Literacy’, Joan Wharf Higgins, Deborah Begoray

Journal of Media Literacy Education

In Canada, as elsewhere, there is considerable concern about adolescents’ health. Much of the blame is thought to lie in the social context for today’s adolescents and their interaction with and dependence on various media. Yet, it is not clear whether and how adolescents learn to engage critically with media messages about health. Emerging from the authors’ previous work in conceptualizing and measuring adolescent health literacy, this article presents the results of a conceptual analysis process using the terms health literacy, critical health literacy, media literacy, critical media literacy, media activism, and critical viewing among others—to arrive at the unique …

The Pedagogy Of Critical Enjoyment: Teaching And Reaching The Hearts And Minds Of Adolescent Learners Through Media Literacy Education, Theresa Redmond

Journal of Media Literacy Education

While there is consensus regarding the definition of media literacy, classroom-based studies of media literacy education in action are few and research that investigates how teachers implement media literacy in practice are needed, including information about why it is taught, what is taught, and how it is taught. Through a purposefully selected case of media literacy at the middle level, this study analyzes three veteran teachers’ media literacy practice identifying critical enjoyment as a pioneering approach to media literacy education that moves beyond the purposes of protection, preparation, and appreciation.

Review: Digital And Media Literacy: Connecting Culture And Classroom (2011), Mira Feuerstein

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

Linking Learning: Connecting Traditional And Media Literacies In 21st Century Learning, Joslyn Sarles Young, Rhys Daunic

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

The Urgency Of Visual Media Literacy In Our Post-9/11 World: Reading Images Of Muslim Women In The Print News Media, Diane Watt

Journal of Media Literacy Education

A decade after the 9/11 attacks, educators concerned with social justice issues are faced with the question of how media representations powerfully constitute the subjectivities of teachers and students. The roles of Muslim women in society are often narrowly construed and projected via media cultures – an unofficial curriculum of the everyday much more influential than the formal curriculum on offer in our schools. Given that much of what we “know” about Muslims we learn from the mass media, it seems urgent that as educators we become more attuned to how they are being portrayed and how such depictions are …

Making Sense Of Tv For Children: The Case Of Portugal, Sara Pereira, Manuel Pinto

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Empowering children for a critical and judicious use and consumption of media is a main objective of media literacy. This paper aims to examine the range of television programs available for children in Portugal through a comparative analysis of the programming for children broadcast by the four Portuguese terrestrial channels (RTP1, RTP2, SIC and TVI) over the course of a year. A content analysis of 4,491 programs reveals that about one third have an explicit educational goal and that preschool children are the primary target audience for children’s television. There are clear differences among Portuguese public and private channels in …

The Global Youth Media Council: Young People Speaking And Learning About Media Reform, Michael Dezuanni, Prue Miles

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The 5th World Summit on Media for Children and Youth held in Karlstad, Sweden in June 2010 provided a unique media literacy experience for approximately thirty young people from diverse backgrounds through participation in the Global Youth Media Council. This article focuses on the Summit’s aim to give young people a ‘voice’ through intercultural dialogue about media reform. The accounts of four young Australians are discussed in order to consider how successful the Summit was in achieving this goal. The article concludes by making recommendations for future international media literacy conferences involving young people. It also advocates for the expansion …

Beyond The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Exploring New Paradigms In Media And Learning, Robert F. Kenny

Journal of Media Literacy Education

There are those who agree with Tom Pettitt that we are entering into a period where text based literacy is no longer the only measure of intelligence, nor is it the only form of valuable communications and knowledge acquisition for today’s media-centric children. As Prensky states, today’s youth speak ‘digital’ as their primary language. While his comments may be tempered by the fact that they are based on personal observation and correspondence with others, Prensky does make a point. In order to reach these children and stimulate their interest in reading and writing, it may be better to being by …

Ask, Don’T Tell: Pedagogy For Media Literacy Education In The Next Decade, Faith Rogow

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

Review: Media Construction Of Global Warming (2010), Stine Eckert

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

School-Based Smoking Prevention With Media Literacy: A Pilot Study, Melinda C. Bier, Spring J. Schmidt, David Shields, Lara Zwarun, Stephen Sherblom, Brian Primack, Cynthia Pulley, Billy Rucker

Journal of Media Literacy Education

School-based tobacco prevention programs have had limited success reducing smoking rates in the long term. Media literacy programs offer an innovative vehicle for delivery of potentially more efficacious anti-tobacco education. However, these programs have been neither widely implemented nor well evaluated. We conducted a pre-post evaluation of a cross-disciplinary tobacco media literacy program. The sample consisted of 204 students across six schools. Results indicated that students’ smoking-specific media literacy and general media literacy measures increased significantly over the course of the intervention.

Fostering Cross-Generational Dialogues About The Ethics Of Online Life, Katie Davis, Shira Lee Katz, Rafi Santo, Carrie James

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Today’s youth inhabit new digital spaces that seem foreign to many adults. These spaces offer unprecedented opportunities for interpersonal connection, but community can break down when people are emboldened by anonymity through pathways that are fast and highly public. Interested in how teens and adults view these ethically charged issues, our three partner organizations – Common Sense Media, the GoodPlay Project, and Global Kids – convened a three-week long series of online conversations with more than 150 parents, teachers, and teens. Our analysis of these conversations revealed that adults exhibited stronger and more consistent patterns of moral and ethical thinking …

Digging Into Youtube Videos: Using Media Literacy And Participatory Culture To Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding, Kristen Bloom, Kelly Marie Johnston

Journal of Media Literacy Education

It has been said that Web 2.0 is changing the way students learn. The time of the teacher as the primary source of information is a relic of the past. The role of the educator, as a result of new media, has changed substantially from one that is focused on the one-way transfer of information to one that trains students how to participate in digital environments with intelligence, skill, and literacy. It is our contention that educators and learners can exploit this media to engage in cross-cultural exchange and ultimately greater crosscultural understanding. This paper will elaborate on the ways …

Engage Me: Using New Literacies To Create Third Space Classrooms That Engage Student Writers, Katie Dredger, Daniel Woods, Crystal Beach, Victoria Sagstetter

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Adolescents use a wide variety of literacy practices in their daily lives. Preservice teachers in this study looked for ways to motivate their students to write by asking them about their in-school and out-of-school writing practices. This survey shows a gap between what motivates students to write for school and why they write out of school. The results suggest that English teachers can forge a “third space” in which out-of-school literacy practices are integrated into the curriculum. This survey provides insights for improving writing pedagogy in regards to students’ expressed desire to communicate, express themselves, and to be involved.

Review: Resources From The Media Education Foundation, Rebecca Ortiz

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Media Literacy Education: Concepts, Theories And Future Directions, Hans Martens

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article synthesizes a large subset of the academic literature on media literacy education. It first argues that media literacy is mostly defined in terms of the knowledge and skills individuals need to analyze, evaluate, or produce media messages. These knowledge and skills mainly relate to four key facets of the mass media phenomenon, i.e. media industries, media messages, media audiences, and media effects. Subsequently, it evaluates what is empirically known about the effectiveness of media literacy practices. Suggestions are made for future research.