This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases post ban. We use a difference in differences (DID) strategy, exploiting variations […]
The struggle over media literacy
The goal of media literacy is to help people become sophisticated citizens rather than sophisticated consumers. The authors argue against a purely ‘text-centred’ approach in which media texts can be deconstructed and analyzed so we can choose among them. Instead, media literacy should integrate a textual analysis with questions of production and reception. An analysis […]
Critical media literacy: Research, theory, and practice
Literacy is on the verge of reinventing itself. Luke and Elkins (1998), recently appointed editors of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult literacy, noted in their first issue of the journal that the potential for such reinvention is reflected in the way “texts and literate” practices of everyday lie are changing at an unprecedented and […]
International Journal of Media and Information Literacy
The journal publishes the scientific articles, concerning the results of research in the field of media education. The articles are accepted only in English. The Editorial Board welcomes articles from both Russian and foreign researchers. This is an open access journal. The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) and article submission charges. The […]
EL SISTEMA MULTIMEDIA EN EL PROCESO PEDAGOGICO.
Multimedia es tal vez el medio que mas velozmente se está adaptando a los procesos de comunicación de finales de nuestro siglo. El sistema multimedia, como lo caracterizamos en el número anterior de esta Revista, es un medio audiovisual que se elabora teniendo en cuenta las características personológicas del auditorio al que va dirigido, así […]
Teaching and reaching the millennial generation through media literacy
From Gutenberg to Gates, from the invention of the printing press to the emergence of digital communication, technology has transformed the way we produce, distribute, and receive information. In turn, new technology challenges our understanding of what it means to be literate. During the Gutenberg era, only a small number of clergy, scholars, and scribes […]
Toward critical media literacy: Core concepts, debates, organizations, and policy
Media literacy education is not as advanced in the USA as in several other English speaking areas, such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Despite decades of struggle since the 1970s by individuals and groups, media education is still only reaching a small percentage of K/12 schools in the US. While some major inroads have […]
Media literacy and the challenge of new information and communication technologies
The concept of media literacy, like that of literacy itself, has long proved contentious (Luke, 1989). The hugely significant skills of reading and writing have been augmented by the also-significant skill of ‘reading’ audiovisual material from the midtwentieth century onwards. Today, as we witness a further major shift in information and communication technology (ICT), a […]
Build Peace 2016
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Promoting Media Literacy amongst Students for Intercultural Dialogue and Peace: A Global Entitlement
“Our newspaper, The Peace Gong promotes diversity and helps in facilitating dialogues amongst young people from different cultures and communities. We extensively use the social media, email communications and mobiles to connect with other student reporters from different background across the country and abroad. Using new forms of available communication, The Peace Gong can be […]
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