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Title: Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
Author: Ramsey, L. Heather
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
Description: A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...

Title: Hyper-theatricality : melodramatic polarities or tragicomic awareness
Author: Pizzato, Mark
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Melodrama
Description: Melodrama became the dominant mode in movies, with spectacular conflicts of good versus evil focusing on clear-cut heroes fighting monstrous villains. Such melodramatic framing continues to be the dominant mode in our mass/social/gaming media. But...

Title: Media literacy matters conference : current landscape, student actions, and future directions
Author: Critical Media Literacy Collaborative
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Information literacy
Description: Media Literacy Matters: Current Landscape, Student Actions, and Future Directions is a half-day conference that brings faculty, students, and researchers across campus together to discuss issues related to media literacy. Media literacy is the abi...

Title: Teaching critical algorithmic evaluation : social media and the datafied self
Author: Grandinetti, Justin
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Social media, Data mining
Description: This presentation focuses on a pedagogical approach and subsequent assignment for critically evaluating the algorithms we interact with in everyday life. While the underlying data driven processes structuring social media are often referred to as ...