Offering a new and thought-provoking look at media literacy education, this book brings together a range of perspectives that address the past, present, and future of media literacy, equity and justice. Straddling media studies, literacy education, and social justice education, this book comes at a time when the media’s role as well as our media intake and perceptions are being disrupted. As a result, questions of censorship, free speech, accountability abound, and nuance is often lost. This book is an antidote to the challenges facing media literacy education: chapters offer a careful examination of important and hot topics, including AI, authenticity, representation, climate change, activism and more.
Addressing the continually evolving role of media and its impact on our society and shared knowledge base, the volume is organized around five themes: Misinformation and Disinformation; Media Representation; Civic Media, Politics and Policy; Eco Media Literacy; Education and Equity, Ethical Quandaries and Ideologies; and Emerging Technologies. Ideal for courses on media literacy and new literacies, this book furthers the conversation on the ways literacy and social justice are connected to educational communities in local and global contexts.
Author(s): Belinha S. De Abreu
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 311
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Shaping Dialogue Amid Broken Conversations
PART I: Truth, Trust, Fact, and Fiction: What Information?
2. Couches, Kitchens, and Conspiracy: Lifestyle Marketing in the Midst of a Crisis
3. Facts, Opinions, and News: How the Infodemic Revealed the Need for a Media and News Literacy Pedagogy
4. How Social Media Has Transformed Social Justice into an “Enemy” of the Brazilian People
5. ICT and Media Education Curriculum for Teachers in the Post-Truth Era
PART II: Media Representation/Misrepresentation
6. Representation in Imagery and Language
7. In a Time of Crisis Who Can We Trust?: A Call to Action from the Margins
8. The Impact of News Media Exclusion: Understanding and Addressing the Under-Representation of Young People in the News
9. Hollywood and Hope: Looking at Social Justice and Human Rights through a Critical Media Literacy Lens
PART III: Civic Media, Politics, and Policy
10. Media Education and Citizenship in Neoliberal Times
11. Media Literacy and Social Justice: Connections, Fissures, and the Future
12. Media Literacy, Values, and Drivers of Youth Civic Engagement: Reflecting on Two Decades of Research
13. Media Literacy as Civic Discourse: A Framework for Inquisitive “Listening” and Authentic “Speaking”in a Digital Space
PART IV: Ecomedia Literacy: Climate, Public & Digital Spaces and Places
14. Ecomedia Literacy: Decolonizing Media and the Climate Emergency
15. Media Literacy Goes Outside: A Case for Speculative Realism and Environmental Activism in the Media Arts Classroom
16. Interrogating Power and Transforming Education with Critical Media Literacy
17. Equity through Expression: Media Literacy, Creativity, and Arts-based Pedagogy
PART V: Education and Equity
18. Media Environments: A Dynamic Model of Media Literacy, Activism, and Change
19. Talking Back: Media, Archival Pedagogy, and Podcasting
20. Equity in K-12 Education in the Age of COVID-19: Comparing Five European Countries
21. Health, Science, and Reliability—A Classroom Perspective
22. Making, Feeling and Moving among Media: A Pupil’s Right
PART VI: Ethical Quandaries: Ideologies
23. Surveillance and the Edtech Imaginary via the Mundane Stuff of Schooling
24. A Right to Lie in the Age of Disinformation: Protecting Free Speech beyond the First Amendment
25. The Ethics of the New Wave of Censorship: A Media Literacy Perspective
26. Social Media: The New Ethical Court
PART VII: Emerging Technologies: Algorithms, ArtificialIntelligence, and Future Considerations
27. Virtual Reality, Empathy, Solidarity: Immersive Media Literacy and Social Justice Activism
28. Whose Justice?—Media Literacy for Handling Internet Public Trials
29. Algorithmic Social Justice through Participatory Action Research: Media Binds or Blinds?
30. Reconceptualizing Media Literacy for the Mid-twenty-first Century: A Vision of Media and Society 2022–2040
Contributor Biographies
Index
