Full Description
High school students today are no longer insulated from the vicissitudes of messaging/counter messaging in today's always available, always blaring media (coming into their cars, homes, and ears through ever-more personal devices), including the cross-accusations of "fake news" that leave true seekers of information spinning in circles. Young people are no longer "future consumers," as products they are not even old enough to buy are pitched to them, while groups with political agendas seek to make future voters already on their "team" before they first step into a voting booth. Fortunately, there is now a call for empowering teens with the knowledge and skills to decode such messaging so that they are no longer passive receptacles of messaging, but active participants in their own media processing. This is the field of media literacy.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Marketing & Media: The Twin Pillars of American Society
Chapter 2: Behavioral Economics (How we are "Nudged" While Making our Choices)
Chapter 3: Coolness: The Super Nudge
Chapter 4: Consumer Demographics (Seeking Media Lit's Holy GRAIL)
Chapter 5: Journey to the Centrics of the Earth
Chapter 6: Teens, the Strangers in our Strange Land
Chapter 7: Media Literacy, Relativity, and the art of Persuasion
Chapter 8: Advanced Media Literacy Issues (Where there be dragons, and worse, possible angry parent phone calls!)
Chapter 9: Telling the Truth
Glossary
About the Author
Index
