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Media Literacies
eBook - A Critical Introduction
ISBN/EAN: 9781444344134
Umbreit-Nr.: 3835424
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S., 0.61 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 28.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction</i> 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 todays media-saturated environment.<br /><br /><ul><li>Updates traditional models of media literacy by examining how digital media is utilized in todays convergent culture</li><li>Explores the history and emergence of media education, the digitally mediated lives of todays youth, digital literacy, and critical citizenship</li><li>Complete with sidebar commentary written by leading media researchers and educators spotlighting new research in the field and an annotated bibliography of key texts and resources</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Michael Hoechsmann</b> is Associate Professor and Chair of Education Programs at Lakehead University, Orillia. He is co-author of<i>Reading Youth Writing: New' Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education</i> (2008), and the former Director of Education of Young People's Press, a youth-oriented non-profit news service.<br /><br /><p><b>Stuart Poyntz</b> 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<i>Review of Education</i>,<i>Pedagogy and Cultural Studies</i>,<i>Sociology Compass</i>, the<i>Journal of Curriculum Theorizing</i>, the<i>Canadian Journal of Education</i>,<i>Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education</i>, and various edited collections.</p>