Media Literacy of the Oppressed: An Emancipatory Pedagogy for/with the Marginalized
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2025), 238 pp.
Contains figures, tables, index
Series: Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education
ISBN 978-1-032-80319-7 (pbk); 978-0-429-32216-7 (ebook)
"This book offers an alternative approach to developing media literacy pedagogies for marginalized communities and people in postcolonial countries, especially in the Global South, tackling unexplored issues such as media literacy of war, terrorism, pandemics, infodemics, populism, colonialism, genocide, and intersectional feminism. With an emphasis on developing critical and emotive consciousness — or unveiling the oppressor within — the book provides a unique perspective that fits the needs of people at the margins and challenges mainstream media literacy approaches that are mainly designed for the center and the Global North. The book offers a framework for designing curricula at and with the margins through an emancipatory media literacy approach. This approach directs energy toward resistance and praxis, focuses on local priorities of the margins, contextualizes issues within a postcolonial historical moment, and concentrates on fighting oppression structures and social injustice." (Publisher description)
1 Failures of Mainstream Media Literacy: A Case for an Emancipatory Media Literacy Framework, 1
2 Media Literacy of Oppressed Identities: An Intersectional Feminist Approach for the Whole Society, 24
3 Media Literacy of Terrorism and Populism: The Symbiotic Relationship between Media and Oppression, 57
4 Media Literacy of Colonialism, War, and Genocide: The Clash of Narratives and the Crushing of Worlds, 78
5 Media Literacy of Pandemics and Infodemics: Saving Society from the Plague of Fake News, Mis/disinformation, and Conspiracy Theories, 177
6 Toward an Alliance of 21st-Century Intersectional Literacies, 221
Epilogue: Marginal Issues, False Victimhood, and Performative Solidarity, 229
2 Media Literacy of Oppressed Identities: An Intersectional Feminist Approach for the Whole Society, 24
3 Media Literacy of Terrorism and Populism: The Symbiotic Relationship between Media and Oppression, 57
4 Media Literacy of Colonialism, War, and Genocide: The Clash of Narratives and the Crushing of Worlds, 78
5 Media Literacy of Pandemics and Infodemics: Saving Society from the Plague of Fake News, Mis/disinformation, and Conspiracy Theories, 177
6 Toward an Alliance of 21st-Century Intersectional Literacies, 221
Epilogue: Marginal Issues, False Victimhood, and Performative Solidarity, 229