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Review: Teens, Social Media And Privacy (2013), Emily Margaret Long
Review: Teens, Social Media And Privacy (2013), Emily Margaret Long
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Media Literacy In The K-12 Classroom (2012), Jonathan Friesem
Review: Media Literacy In The K-12 Classroom (2012), Jonathan Friesem
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Thinking, Fast And Slow (2011), David Cooper Moore
Review: Thinking, Fast And Slow (2011), David Cooper Moore
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction (2013), Jennifer Hinkle
Review: Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction (2013), Jennifer Hinkle
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Speculative Design And Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding To Imagine A New Major In A Post-Course Era, Holly Willis, Steve Anderson
Speculative Design And Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding To Imagine A New Major In A Post-Course Era, Holly Willis, Steve Anderson
Journal of Media Literacy Education
Randy Bass, Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, recently made the provocative claim that we inhabit a “post-course era.” Building on the findings of the National Survey of Student Engagement that show that the places in which undergraduate students demonstrate the highest degree of engagement is in areas outside the traditional curriculum and its courses, Bass suggests that we not merely try to enrich the formal curriculum, but that we also consider supporting and augmenting activities in the “extra” curriculum. We can thereby create opportunities for learning within informal as well as formal settings. …
Expanding Learning Opportunities With Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice As An Exemplar, Laura Fleming
Expanding Learning Opportunities With Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice As An Exemplar, Laura Fleming
Journal of Media Literacy Education
The proliferation of digital and networking technologies enables us to rethink, restructure, and redefine teaching and learning. Transmedia storytelling takes advantage of the rapid convergence of media and allows teachers and learners to participate in rich virtual (and physical) environments that have been shown to foster students’ real emotional engagement with the process of learning. Transmedia learning applies storytelling techniques across multiple platforms to create immersive educational experiences that enable manifold entry and exit points for learning and teaching. By utilizing constructivist and connectivist precepts in the application of these techniques, we can create pedagogies that are transformative on many …
Transmedia Play: Literacy Across Media, Meryl Alper, Rebecca Herr-Stephenson
Transmedia Play: Literacy Across Media, Meryl Alper, Rebecca Herr-Stephenson
Journal of Media Literacy Education
Transmedia play is a new way to understand how children develop critical media literacy and new media literacies through their interactions with contemporary media that links stories and structures across platforms. This essay highlights five characteristics of transmedia play that make it particularly useful for learning: resourcefulness, sociality, mobility, accessibility, and replayability, and explains how each characteristic relates to digital and media literacy education.
Guest Editor’S Introduction, Erin Reilly
Guest Editor’S Introduction, Erin Reilly
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Net Locality: Why Location Matters In A Networked World (2011), Colin Rhinesmith
Review: Net Locality: Why Location Matters In A Networked World (2011), Colin Rhinesmith
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Missions For Thoughtful Gamers (2011), Stephen Walter
Review: Missions For Thoughtful Gamers (2011), Stephen Walter
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Mediactive (2010), Monica Chahal
Review: Mediactive (2010), Monica Chahal
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Participatory Culture At The Echo Park Film Center, Jennifer Ann Rosales
Participatory Culture At The Echo Park Film Center, Jennifer Ann Rosales
Journal of Media Literacy Education
The Echo Park Film Center, a Los Angeles nonprofit media education organization, teaches underprivileged youth how to comprehend and make media in order to empower them to speak and be heard. Due to the organization’s nonmainstream media courses and its connection to its community, the Center is able to create a participatory and socially inclusive environment that teaches young people a particular form of media-making and comprehension. In this article, I explore the participatory culture created at the Echo Park Film Center through an observational study of its “Origins” course and a contextual analysis of the organization’s methods and philosophy.
A Media Literate Approach To Developing Diversity Education, Fernando Naiditch
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.
Bringing The World To School: Integrating News And Media Literacy In Elementary Classrooms, David Cooper Moore
Bringing The World To School: Integrating News And Media Literacy In Elementary Classrooms, David Cooper Moore
Journal of Media Literacy Education
For three years, the Powerful Voices for Kids program, a university-school partnership program of the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, developed a multifaceted approach to integrate news and current events into in-school and after-school instruction in K-6 schools. Three case studies detailing the program’s impact on an undergraduate novice instructor, an in-school technology mentor, and an experienced classroom teacher illustrate the ways in which different stakeholders at the school approached news integration. Though approaches, interests, and values of each teacher vary considerably, all teachers share a commitment to the following classroom principles: (1) the use of …
Exploring Adolescents’ Multimodal Responses To The Kite Runner: Understanding How Students Use Digital Media For Academic Purposes, Robin Jocius
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This qualitative study explores how adolescent high school students in an AP English class used multiple forms of media (the Internet, digital video, slide show software, video editing tools, literary texts, and writing) to respond to and analyze a contemporary novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Using a multimodal analysis framework, the author explores the following question: How are students’ multimodal retellings with literary devices mediated by the text, the choice of compositional tool, and the use of different modes? The findings of this study can be used to shape our understanding of adolescents’ multimodal composition practices in academic …
Media Literacy Education From Kindergarten To College: A Comparison Of How Media Literacy Is Addressed Across The Educational System, Hans C. Schmidt
Media Literacy Education From Kindergarten To College: A Comparison Of How Media Literacy Is Addressed Across The Educational System, Hans C. Schmidt
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This study of media literacy education at all levels of the educational system considered faculty perceptions of student media literacy competencies, the extent to which media literacy is addressed in class, and the extent to which faculty members consider media literacy education to be important. Data suggest that despite the research and policy focus on media literacy at the K-12 level, educators reported addressing media literacy competencies most frequently within higher education. Results also suggested that training and experience, not youth or digital nativity, are the factors that lead to an interest in teaching about media literacy among faculty.
Exploring The Usefulness Of School Education About Risks On Social Network Sites: A Survey Study, Ellen Vanderhoven, Tammy Schellens, Martin Valcke
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 …
Editor’S Introduction, Vanessa Domine
Editor’S Introduction, Vanessa Domine
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Artbabble: A Partnership Of Art Appreciation, Curation, And Media Literacy, Julie Decesare
Review: Artbabble: A Partnership Of Art Appreciation, Curation, And Media Literacy, Julie Decesare
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: International Perspectives On Youth Media: Cultures Of Production And Education (2011), Marketa Zezulkova
Review: International Perspectives On Youth Media: Cultures Of Production And Education (2011), Marketa Zezulkova
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction (2012), Shannon D.M. Moore
Review: Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction (2012), Shannon D.M. Moore
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: A Decade Of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, And Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America (2011), Joseph Faina
Review: A Decade Of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, And Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America (2011), Joseph Faina
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Media Literacy Education Program Evaluators: What’S The Job Description, Again?, Kneia Octavia Dacosta
Media Literacy Education Program Evaluators: What’S The Job Description, Again?, Kneia Octavia Dacosta
Journal of Media Literacy Education
School program evaluation researchers confront overlapping questions concerning our roles in the field. In the quest for “good” data and “The Truth,” am I a shrewd researcher before all else? In the interest of establishing respectful, reciprocal relationships with my school partners, am I first a gracious school guest, prepared to sacrifice research integrity for the sake of goodwill? Or, for the sake of students, am I foremost an advocate for the intervention, pressing an agenda I firmly believe in? As an ingénue who recently turned toward the field of media literacy education (MLE), which had long attracted me but …
Developing An Ethics Of Youth Media Production Using Media Literacy, Identity, & Modality, Damiana Gibbons
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
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.
Exploring Message Meaning: A Qualitative Media Literacy Study Of College Freshmen, Seth Ashley, Grace Lyden, Devon Fasbinder
Exploring Message Meaning: A Qualitative Media Literacy Study Of College Freshmen, Seth Ashley, Grace Lyden, Devon Fasbinder
Journal of Media Literacy Education
Critical media literacy demands understanding of the deeper meanings of media messages. Using a grounded theory approach, this study analyzed responses by first-year college students not currently enrolled in formal media literacy education to three types of video messages: an advertisement, a public relations message, and a news report. Students did not exhibit nuanced understandings of message purpose or sender in any of the three types of messages, and had particular difficulty distinguishing public relations and news messages. These results suggest a media literacy curriculum addressing distinctions between media formats, with emphasis on analysis of message intent and point of …
Explore Locally, Excel Digitally: A Participatory Learning After-School Program For Enriching Citizenship On- And Offline, Laurel J. Felt, Vanessa Vartabedian, Ioana Literat, Ritesh Mehta
Explore Locally, Excel Digitally: A Participatory Learning After-School Program For Enriching Citizenship On- And Offline, Laurel J. Felt, Vanessa Vartabedian, Ioana Literat, Ritesh Mehta
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a participatory culture pedagogy in the context of a pilot after-school program at Los Angeles Unified School District’s Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools. Ethnographic fieldnotes, instructor and student reflections, photographs, video recordings, and student work illustrate the program’s culture of participatory learning, characterized by motivation and engagement, creativity, relevance, co-learning, and ecological learning. ELED also supported participants’ acquisition of digital literacy skills, new media literacies, and social and emotional learning competencies. This experience suggests that relationship building is integral and foundational to establishing citizenship, both online and offline.
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
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.
Editor’S Introduction, Vanessa Domine
Editor’S Introduction, Vanessa Domine
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.
Review: Arkive—An Intersection Of Conservation, Multimedia And Usability, Julie Ann Decesare
Review: Arkive—An Intersection Of Conservation, Multimedia And Usability, Julie Ann Decesare
Journal of Media Literacy Education
No abstract provided.