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Informationen zum Autor Michael Hoechsmann is Associate Professor and Chair of Education Programs at Lakehead University, Orillia. He is co-author of Reading Youth Writing: 'New' Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education (2008), and the former Director of Education of Young People's Press, a youth-oriented non-profit news service. Stuart Poyntz is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and the former Director of Education at Pacific Cinémathèque, Western Canada's leading film institute. He has published articles in the Review of Education , Pedagogy and Cultural Studies , Sociology Compass , the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing , the Canadian Journal of Education , Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education , and various edited collections. Klappentext Whether we like it or not, communication technologies - ever smaller, more convergent, and more comprehensive - are tightly woven into the cultural fabric of our everyday lives. How did we get here? And what exactly does it mean to be 'literate' in this new media era? Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction traces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh challenges posed by the convergent media of the twenty-first century. The book explores the history and emergence of media education, contemporary youth and its digitally mediated lives, digital literacy, and critical citizenship. Sidebar commentary written by leading media researchers and educators spotlights specific issues and media phenomena. Media Literacies provides students and educators alike with an invaluable theoretical and practical approach to understanding media literacy in the remarkable digital age we find ourselves in. Zusammenfassung Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction traces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh challenges posed by the convergent media of the 21st century. The book provides a much-needed guide to what it means to be literate in today s media-saturated environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix 1 What is Media Literacy? 1 Media Literacy 2.000 4 Natives and Aliens 7 Media Education has a History to Draw On 9 Media Education in the Twenty-First Century 12 2 Children's Media Lives 17 Researching Young People in Mediated Environments 19 Getting Older Faster, Staying Younger Longer 20 Life Inside a Media Wonderland 23 Inequities and Parents' Worries about Media Use 25 Media Concentration and the Big Four 28 Creating Cradle-to-Grave Consumers 30 Conclusion 33 3 Media as Public Pedagogy 35 Media as Threat 37 Media as a Form of Public Pedagogy 39 New Learning Horizons 41 Debating Dangerous Screens 43 The Merits of Television for Education 46 Children's Learning Television 48 SIDEBAR: An Inconvenient Truth as public pedagogy 50 Public Service Announcements, Entertainment Education, and Culture Jamming 53 Bricolage 58 SIDEBAR: Pre-teen girls and popular music 60 4 Media Literacy 101 63 A Demand for New Heuristics 65 Cultural Life 67 Production 68 SIDEBAR: Moral makeovers: Reality television and the good citizen 69 Text 76 Audience 84 SIDEBAR: Children's media encounters in contemporary India: Leisure and learning 88 Cultural Life 92 SIDEBAR: The Simpsons: Not such a dumb show after all! 95 5 Media Production and Youth Agency 100 What Creative Work Adds to Media Education: Production as Praxis 101 SIDEBAR: Youth cultural production and creative economies 102 SIDEBAR: Assessing learning from practical media production at an introductory level: The role of writing 106 What does Producti...
