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Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.
List of contents
1. 25 Years of Critical Media Literacy: What Mattered then & What Matters now in Higher Education
2. Social Justice Is Not Possible Without Critical Media Literacy
3. Finding the 'edu' in educommunicación: In search of praxis in teacher education
4. Preparatory Courses for Graduate Programs and Digital Literacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
5. Radical Education and the Abolitionist University
6. The Peruvian university: Will new models emerge from post-pandemic uncertainty?
7. Rethinking Disorder: Social Struggles, Direct Action, and Critical Pedagogy
8. Exploiting the News to Make Change: A Dynamic Model of Media Environments as Landscape For Understanding and Participating in the Digital Environment
9. Critical Media Literacy and the University as Medium: A Reflexive Social Epistemology
10. Reclaiming Media Education for the Environment: A Case for Critical Ecomedia Literacy in Professional Journalism Schools
11. The Anthropocene's Epistemic Enclosure: Utilizing Ecomedia Literacy to Revive the Knowledge Commons
12. Rethinking Curriculums: How Critical Digital Literacy and Mandatory Composition Courses Collide
13. Theory as a 'Healing Place': Critical Literacy, Media Production, and Minoritized Students
14. Teaching Podcasting in Ethnic Studies Classrooms: The Alchemist Manifesto Podcast, Digital Literacy Pedagogies and Lessons from Student Projects in and beyond the Global Pandemic
15. Scratching the Surface: How Facebook Journalism Project Undermines Journalistic Integrity and Critical Media Literacy?
16. Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed as a Vehicle to Promote Critical Media Literacy
17. "I should not have to take a class that is so harmfully liberal again": Radical Democracy and Preparing Transformative Teachers
18. The Road Ahead: Empowering Critical Thinkers and Digital Citizens
About the author
Steve Gennaro is a critical theorist, philosopher of technology, award-winning educator, and child rights activist. He is also one of the founding members of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Nolan Higdon is a Lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Michael Hoechsmann is a Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Media, Film, and Communications at Lakehead University (Orillia).
Summary
Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.
