Race is too often treated “like a trend” rather than “something that people live,” CNN’s Tanzina Vega says. The New York Time’s Nikole Hannah-Jones describes some of the barriers to better, more thorough coverage of race issues, including framing by journalists and lack of understanding by newsroom leaders. Link: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/08/20/rs-newsrooms-missing-the-mark-on-race-coverage.cnn/video/playlists/reliable-sources-highlights/Source: CNN
Introducing Africa: Critical Thinking and Media Literacy
Elementary School -this kit is designed to unearth stereotypes about Africa and helps to teach about diversity. In the first lesson, students challenge their own stereotypes about Africa through a series of photographs. After discussing the photographs, students examine how media constructions of Africa helped inform their responses. The second lesson uses currency as the […]
Children See Race; Teachers Should Too: Challenging Bias, Stereotypes, and Prejudice Through Children’s Literature
This dissertation examines the impacts of antibias culturally responsive literature on kindergarten children and teachers through qualitative action research conducted in one classroom over the course of twelve weeks. It examines how young children in this kindergarten classroom use what they have learned from and about antibias culturally responsive literature in their daily play, writing, […]
A Case for the Common Good: How Training in Faith-based Media Literacy Helped Teachers Address Social Justice Issues in the Classroom
This case study reveals how a faith-based initiative offering structured teacher training in media literacy. The program is centered in Catholic Social Teaching, encouraging the use of critical media literacy in the classroom to aid the learning of social justice issues. The critical literacy of Paulo Freire serves as theoretical framework to help answer the […]
Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Media Literacy: A Response to “Fake News”
The call to integrate media literacy into public education is not new. However, with the rise of “fake news” and sensationalism along with technology’s ever-growing role in society, media literacy offers teachers and students a set of skills to analyze, critique, and respond to the information that appears before them in the digital texts they […]
Faith Leaders Developing Digital Literacies: Demands and Resources across Career Stages According to Theological Educators
Despite popular framings about skills for 21st-century jobs, there are few studies of how new media literacies unfold in workplaces, nor of how professional education programs can build on adult learners’ previous experiences to foster effective digital communication practices. We argue that seminaries and divinity schools are a particularly rich context in which to explore […]
How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
Parents of Black and brown kids know that instilling their kids with a sense of racial identity and talking about how racism will inevitably affect their lives — and possibly even their safety — are essential life lessons. Parents of White kids, on the other hand, often don’t feel the same pressure. But as racist […]
Black Lives Matter in Information Literacy
The institutional racism addressed by the Black Lives Matter movement is encoded in many of the structures of academia, including academic libraries. A librarian who teaches information literacy asks students to think about which voices are represented in the scholarly literature, make explicit the implicit biases of the way scholarly materials are organized in the […]
Racism in Modern Information and Communication Technologies
These are the remarks given at a keynote address at the United Nations, before the 10th session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, Switzerland. Link: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_pubs/495/Author: Jessie DanielsSource: CUNY Academy Works
Information ACTism in “Trumping” the Contemporary Fake News Phenomenon in Rural Libraries
Fabricated or fake news has become a phenomenon of unprecedented proportions in the 21st century. Donald J. Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has played a major role in its pervasive adoption and spread of misinformation and disinformation since his ascendency on November 8, 2016. In today’s complex political landscape, this […]