Full Description
Over half the world's population is now online, interconnected through a globally-networked media and consumer society. The convergence of information, media, and technology has created the predominant ecosystem of our time. Yet, most educational institutions are still teaching what and how they have for centuries, and are thus increasingly out-of-date and out-of-touch with our current needs. The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education provides a theoretical framework and practical applications for educators and teacher education programs to transform education by putting critical media literacy into action in classrooms with students from kindergarten to university.
Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share lay out the evolution of thinking and development of media and cultural studies, from the Frankfurt School to current intersectional theories about information and power that highlight the importance of race, gender, class, and sexuality. They provide insightful and accessible entry into theorizing education and information communication technologies through linking the politics of representation with critical pedagogy.
The increase in fake news, alternative facts, bots, and trolls, challenge our abilities to judge credibility and recognize bias. Kellner and Share present a critical lens and strategies to contextualize and analyze the dominant ideologies going viral across social media platforms and disseminated globally from enormous transnational corporations. The Critical Media Literacy Guide is a powerful resource to analyze and challenge representations and narratives of multiple forms of identity, privilege, and oppression. Since the struggle for social justice and democracy require new theories and pedagogies to maneuverer the constantly changing terrain, this book is essential for all educators.
Contents
Foreword
Allan Luke
Introduction
1 Towards Critical Digital & Media Literacies
Media Literacy: An Unfulfilled Challenge
Overview of Critical Media Literacy
Pedagogical Antecedents of Critical Media Literacy
Reconstructing Critical Media Literacy in the 21st Century
New Technologies/New Literacies
Media, Power, and Ideology
2 Ideology & the Politics of Representation
Intersectionality
Standpoint Epistemologies
Questioning Power
Representations of Class
Looking Closely at Race and Racism
Problematizing Gender & Sexuality
3 Putting Theory into Practice
Teaching & Learning in an Image-Based Culture
Everyone Today Is a Photographer
Aural Literacy
Multimodal Literacy
The Dynamics of Digital and Networked Media
Learning CML through Media Production & Praxis
Storytelling
4 Preparing Educators to Teach Critical Media Literacy
Teaching Teachers CML
Exploring Identity & Media Representations
Engaging Race and Gender
Challenging Advertising and Consumerism
Creating Critical Media Literacy Lessons
Social Media and Partnering Pedagogy
Lights, Sound, and Multimedia Action
Challenges for Creating Social Justice Educators
5 Environmental Justice Is Social Justice
News Reporting on Environmental Problems
Fake News & Climate Change
Creating Media to Challenge the Problems
The Power of Visual Imagery
Fedora Schooler, Middle School English/Social Studies Teacher
Nick Kello, Elementary School Music Teacher
Using Digital Media to Participate in Civic Society
6 Concluding Thoughts
Challenging the Myths of Neutrality and Objectivity
Fostering Democracy and Global Citizenship
References
Index
