Description based on print version record Media Literacy Education in Action brings together the field's leading scholars and advocates to present a snapshot of the theoretical and conceptual development of media literacy education-what has influenced it, current trends, and ideas about its future. Featuring a mix of perspectives, it explores the divergent ways in which media literacy is connected to educational communities and academic areas in both local and global contexts. The volume is structured around seven themes: Media Literacy: Past and Present Digital Media and Learning Global Perspective Media literacy: an incomplete project / Julian McDougall -- Voices of media literacy / Tessa Jolls, Barbara J. Walkosz, Dee Morgenthaler -- Media literacy education in Ontario / Neil Andersen -- A case for curation as a media literacy imperative for participatory culture / Paul Mihailidis -- Lessons learned from Amanda Baggs: implications for new media literacies education / Margaret Carmody Hagood -- Visualization as a new media literacy / Erin Reilly -- The world is a village: conceptualizing uses of new media in "flat classrooms" / William Kist -- Towards a European network for media literacy: a Nordic perspective on challenges in a global society / Per Lundgren -- Media literacy through arts education in Australia / Michael Dezuanni, Annette Woods -- Sowing the seeds of digital and media literacy in Lebanon and the Arab world: the importance of a locally grown and sustainable curriculum / Jad P. Melki -- Hong Kong media education in the Web 2.0 era: engaging with the net generation / Alice Y.L. Lee -- Towards the integration of media and information literacy: a rationale for a twenty-first-century approach / Marcus Leaning -- A promising future: U.S. public libraries as informal media literacy educators / Denise E. Agosto, Rachel M. Magee -- School libraries, media literacy and the potential for civic engagement / Gayle Bogel -- Why media arts curriculum standards could improve media arts and critical media literacy in K-12 settings / Amy Petersen Jensen -- What are we really teaching?: outline for an activist media literacy education / Katherine G. Fry -- Should I really kill my television?: negotiating common ground among media literacy scholars, educators, and activists / Lori Bindig, James Castonguay -- Shrinking the divide: solving social inequalities through media literacy education / Nick Pernisco --Game-based civic learning in public participation processes / Eric Gordon, Steven Schirra -- On the difficulties of promoting media literacy / Sonia Livingstone, Yin-Han Wang -- Media literacy education: a requirement for today's digital citizens / Frank Gallagher -- Emerging from K-12 future shock: how to blend digital and media literacy into the common core standards / Rhys Daunic -- Grasping the complexities of U.S. educational policy and the classroom: how to move media literacy education forward / Belinha S. De Abreu -- Media literacy preparation in undergraduate teacher training: an American and Australian perspective / David M. Considine and Michael M. Considine -- Rhetoric in a new key: media literacy education for the twenty-first-century university / Gretchen Schwarz -- International media and informational literacy: a conceptual framework / Art Silverblatt, Yupa Saisanan Na Ayudhya, Kit Jenkins |
