Articulation of religious guidelines in the political milieu never takes place in a disembodied form; rather politically inscribed religious discourses are embedded within and conveyed through specific institutional channels, including media organizations and education institutions. My experiences of working as a media educator in villages in Gujarat have helped me understand how the learning of […]
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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 […]
Literacidad crítica y discurso del odio: una investigación en Educación Secundaria
Este trabajo analiza la capacidad crítica del alumnado frente a un problema social relevante como es el discurso del odio, ya que gran parte de las informaciones que transmiten los medios de comunicación o las redes sociales se encuentran marcadas por la presencia de discurso del odio. La investigación se ha llevado a cabo con […]
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 […]
Educating for democracy? : The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school
This paper reports a study of pupils’ experiences of media and information literacy education in five Swedish schools by answering the following overarching question, what roles do the teaching of information seeking and critical assessment of information play for pupils in their school-work as well as in their everyday life? Pupils in ninth grade were […]
Information Literacy for the Net Generation to Anticipate the Danger of Intolerance
Intolerance behaviors that are not anticipated may give birth to the danger of radicalism both psychologically and physically. This study aims at exploring the way to select and discover informational sources related to the topics; at investigating a means of estimating, accepting, and determining the best thing in the future; at analyzing a means of […]
Pseudo-Chomsky or Media Manipulation in the Scientific Area
Having analyzed a number of published research papers, the authors of the article come to conclusion that manipulations in the scientific world can, inter alia, manifest themselves in the following forms: – substitution of the authorship, that is, replacement of the surname of a little-known author with the surname of a scientific celebrity (manipulation technique […]
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 […]
Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age. A Question of Democracy
Many of the social issues of today have to do with digitization and, not least, the ongoing transformation of the media and communication culture. We are now at a point that may be described as ‘the end of the digital beginning’. Following a period of optimism about the potentialities offered by the internet – especially […]
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