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"In this media-saturated world, we must learn how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information so that we can avoid the risks and maximize its potential to help us. Media Literacy shows you how. Drawing from thousands of media research studies, author W. James Potter explores the key components to understanding the fascinating world of mass media. In this thoroughly updated and revised Ninth Edition, Potter presents numerous examples...
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Media is everywhere but is often a poor source of information. Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical approach to media and interpret the information overload that is disseminated via mass communication. This fourth edition supplies a critical and qualitative approach to media literacy analysis. Now updated with conceptual changes, current examples, updated references,...
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As the media increases in use as our prime source for information and values, there is a great need to impart methods to critically evaluate all aspects of film, television, the Internet, advertising, radio, and print media. Silverblatt, Ferry, and Finan's innovative text offers various critical methods and approaches to media literacy, including autobiographical, ideological, nonverbal, and mythic approaches. Each chapter presents in detail a full...
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In Media and Information Literacy: An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century, the author argues that media and information literacy professionals have much to learn from one another and that the two fields need to integrate to more fully prepare students for life in the 21st century. This book first considers the separate and quiet different histories of media and information literacy education and then moves on to considering the contemporary environment....
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Using contemporary examples and language, Media Literacy offers young adults the tools they need to evaluate contemporary media. Teens are encouraged to become media critics and make detailed observations to discern whether a given medium is honest, independent, and productive. Topics include: Advertising, Animation, Feature-length documentaries, Hoaxes, jokes, and viruses, Parody news, Print media, Public relations, Reality TV, Recorded music and...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed media literacy a "fundamental human right." This title helps readers learn about methodologies and assessment strategies; and get information about sectors, such as community media and media activism.
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How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in All Data Are Local , we should approach data sets with an awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them....
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"Understanding media means understanding what is happening around you--being a more conscious member of society and a more informed human being. This tutorial is designed to help you understand how media works and how the media (and especially news) landscape has changed with the movement of information onto the Internet." --
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Designed to help students develop the ability to interpret media as well as understand the ways they themselves consume and affectively (emotionally) invest in media. Such an appreciation encourages both critical thinking and self-analysis, as students begin to realize that everyday decisions are not necessarily made freely and rationally. While we strongly believe that humans exercise agency, we understand that there are social, cultural, and political...
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Examines the increasing role of visual information in newspapers. Encourages students to develop their analytical skills in visual literacy and consider how newspapers rely heavily on the power of the picture. Looks at the production of photography, cartoons, and graphic design, the process of choice and editorial decision making, and the critical analysis of the meaning of visual images. Considers factors that shape the meaning of visual images.
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The flow of information through our modern digital world has led to many new issues and controversies. Information Literacy in the Digital Age examines the challenges involved in seeking and evaluating information from the vast array of sources available through digital technology.
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"Renee Hobbs provides the first empirical evidence of the impact of media literacy on the academic achievement of adolescents. This book chronicles the practice of high school teachers who prepared their students to critically analyze all aspects of contemporary media culture. To do so, they developed an innovative curriculum that incorporates popular media, television, journalism, film, and new media into the required English curriculum. This book...
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"This book offers a glance at where toys have come from and where they are likely to go in the years ahead. The focus is on the interplay between traditional toys and play, and toys and play that are mediated by, or combined with, digital technology. As well as covering the technical aspects of computer-mediated play activities, the authors consider how technologically enhanced toys are currently used in traditional play and how they are woven into...
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Written for media education scholars and students, literacy educators, and anyone involved with integrating new technologies into the educational process, Literacy in a Digital World explores the changing relationship between literacy and schooling within the context of new communication technologies, and places literacy within the social and historical contexts that expand its potential to enrich teaching and learning in an information age.
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In this age of electronic information overload, argues Frechette (communications, Worchester State College), the Internet-supported classroom must incorporate media literacy in order to help students become critical citizens. Rather than having online information blocked or filtered from them, she s.
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Provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. Explores the theoretical underpinnings of critical media literacy and analyzes a case study involving an elementary school that received a federal grant to integrate media literacy and the arts into the curriculum. The ideas and experiences of working teachers are analyzed through a critical media literacy framework that...
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