In a culture dominated by images, what is the capacity of radio-making to enact the ideals and meet the objectives of critical medial literacy education that empowers learners and expands democracy? This article conceptualizes a radio-based critical media literacy approach drawing upon a course project called “Borderless Radio,” where fifty-two students in a large urban […]
Guiding Digital and Media Literacy Development in Arab Curricula Through Understanding Media Uses of Arab Youth
The role of new media in the Arab uprisings and the news of widespread surveillance of digital and mobile media have triggered a renewed interest in Arab audiences research, particularly as it pertains to these audiences’ critical abilities and digital media literacy competencies. Taken for granted have been Arab youth’s widespread use of social media […]
EAVI: A Journey to Media Literacy (episode 2)
Enjoy the second episode of A Journey to Media Literacy: “Awareness: What am I doing?” What people experience using the media is shaped by their skills, knowledge and wisdom. So how can we use the media as a tool, defending against threats and benefitting from the many resources available? Media literate citizens are those who […]
COMUNICAR – The Internet of the future. The challenges of human interaction – Call for Papers
Comunicar announces its next thematic issue (Call for Papers): The Internet of the future. The challenges of human interaction. See http://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=proximos&idioma=en). We would like to invite you to submit original manuscripts, research results for evaluation to be edited if appropriate. Comunicar is covered by Social Sciences Citation and Scopus among many other databases. This journal […]
Eyes Wide Open (Curriculum)
Eyes Wide Open is about getting to the heart of the story, filtering facts from fluff, posting the good stuff, and giving privacy a second thought. It is pivot’s digital and media literacy campaign and it will provide us with information and tools to use media effectively.
Digital Literacy for Digital Natives and Their Professors
In yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed’s technology blog, Joshua Kim wrote about “Courses, Facebook, and Secret Groups,” in which he pointed out that “There is a world of social learning going on, and we (meaning us instructors, educational technologists – basically anyone employed on the instructional or administrative sides of the house), know nothing about what […]
Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy
Social media environments and online communities are innovative collaborative technologies that challenge traditional definitions of information literacy. Metaliteracy is an overarching and self-referential framework that integrates emerging technologies and unifies multiple literacy types. This redefinition of information literacy expands the scope of generally understood information competencies and places a particular emphasis on producing and sharing […]
Empowering Educators: Supporting Student Progress in the Classroom with Digital Games (Part 2)
There is growing interest in the use of digital games as part of K-12 teachers’ classroom instruction. For example, in Washington State, legislation1 is being considered to create a pilot program for integrating games into the school curriculum. And in the fall of 2014, the White House and U.S. Department of Education hosted a game […]
Rise Above the Crowd”: A Quasi-Experiment in Journalistic Event Coverage Using Mobile Phones and Billboards
Media companies have embraced the idea of citizen journalism for decades. Little research, however, systematically explores how people use mobile smartphones to engage in acts of reporting.1 Bridging theory between social and media ritual, this project explores how a crowd used mobile smartphones to report on an organized live event where content submissions were immediately […]
Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda
Educators prepare people for full participation in contemporary culture. The Media Education Lab is exploring the theme of propaganda because it is a ubiquitous feature of our daily lives. As citizens of a global media landscape, the ability to recognize and resist propaganda is important. In helping build people’s critical thinking and communication skills, we […]
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