"Featuring contributions from a diverse range of internationally-recognized experts and practitioners, this timely volume discusses recent developments in the field in the context of related scholarship, public policy, formal and non-formal teaching and learning, and DIY and community practice. Offering a truly global perspective, the Handbook focuses on empirical work from Media and Information Literacy (MIL) practitioners from around the world. The book’s five parts explore global youth cultures and the media, trans-media learning, media literacy and scientific controversies, varying national approaches to media research, media education policies, and much more." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Media Education Research in a Rapidly Changing Media Environment / Stuart R. Poyntz, Divina Frau-Meigs, Michael Hoechsmann, Sirkku Kotilainen, and Manisha Pathak-Shelat, 1
PART I: GLOBAL YOUTH CULTURES
1 Micro-celebrity communities, research and media education: Understanding fan practices on YouTube and Wattpad / Michael Dezuanni, 19
2 Memes production as parodic activism: inclusion and exclusion in young people's digital participation in Latin America / Rosalía Winocur & Inés Dussel, 33
3 Youth, ICTs, and "violent extremism": a media education perspective / Sanjay Asthana, 47
4 Unaccompanied refugee children and media literacy: doing media education research on the margins / Annamária Neag, 61
5 The change in young Australian's media viewing habits: What does this mean for the future of Australian children's television content? / Marc C-Scott, 75
6 "We don't do that here" and "Isme tera ghata, mera kuch nahi jata": young people's meme cultures in India / Devina Sarwatay, 85
7 Towards a hybridised and glocalised youth identities in Africa? From old problematics to new possibilities and imaginations / Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, 97
8 Social media influences on youth with disabilities in the Global South / Tafadzwa Rugoho, 105
PART II: PEDAGOGIES AND PRACTICES
9 Towards transmedia learning: practices, approaches and tools / Maria-Jose Masanet, Gabriella Taddeo & Simona Tirocchi, 115
10 Youth media education in the age of algorithm-driven social media / Sirkku Kotilainen, Jussi Okkonen, Jaakko Vuorio & Karoliina Leisti, 131
11 Integrating nonviolent communication in pedagogies of media literacy education / Vedabhyas Kundu, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, 141
12 Different countries similar issues: media binds or blinds? / Melda N. Yildiz, 155
13 Teaching gender and sexuality in a critical media literacy framework: curriculum, pedagogical interventions and auto-ethnographic reflections / Ruchi Jaggi, 167
14 Competencies about the news for elementary school children / Ioli Campos, 175
15 Looking for digital (alter)natives: why teachers' beliefs about children matter in media education / Pekka Mertala & Saara Salomaa, 183
16 Understanding media regulation in the public interest / Robert Beveridge, 189
17 "Doing journalism isn't lying": literacies and fake news in an experience with children in the invisibility triad / Lumárya Souza de Sousa & Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira, 195
18 Teaching media literacy through scientific controversies / José Azevedo, 201
19 Teaching interactive narratives: developing user engagement through theory empowered practice / Willemien Sanders, 207
PART III: HISTORIES
20 Media education history: the early years / Keval J. Kumar, 217
21 Media education 3.0? How big data, algorithms and AI redefine media education / Grzegorz Ptaszek, 229
22 Media education in Latin America: the paradigm of educommunication / Claúdia Lago, Claudemir E. Viana, Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli & Marciel Consani, 241
23 A brief history of media education in Chile / Pablo Andrada Sola & Cristian Cabalin, 253
24 Nordic perspectives on the history and future of media education / Reijo Kupiainen & Daniel Schofield, 259
25 Media Education in Israel: mainstreaming the avant-garde / Arielle Friedman, Ornat Turin & Orly Melamed, 267
26 Media education in the Czech Republic: vision and disconnection / Lucie Römer, 275
27 Media education in India: policy and praxis in old and new communication media / C.H.S.N. Murthy, 281
PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
28 Defining media education policies: building blocks, scope and characteristics / Normand Landry & Christiane Caneva, 291
29 The development of media literacy in Chinese societies: from grassroots efforts to institutional support / Alice Y. L. Lee, 309
30 Digital privacy policy literacy: a framework for Canadian youth / Leslie Regan Shade & Sharly Chan, 327
31 Searching for common ground: multiliteracy and the curricular consistency in the Finnish education system / Lauri Palsa, 339
32 Civil society taking the lead in media literacy education in Armenia / Lusine Grigoryan, 347
33 Media Education Challenges in a digital society: the case of Chile / Rayén Condeza, Myrna Gálvez, Nadia Herradal & Francisco Fernández, 355
34 Landscape and terrain of digital literacy policy and practice: Canada in the 21st century / Helen DeWaard & Michael Hoechsmann, 363
35 Media education policy developments in times of "fake news": the case of the Czech Republic as an EU member state / Lucie Stastna, Markéta Supa & Jan Jirák, 373
PART V: CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP AND FUTURES
36 Expanding ethics to the environment with ecomedia literacy / Antonio Lopez, 383
37 Engaging the world: social media literacy for transcultural citizenship / Manisha Pathak-Shelat & Kiran Vinod Bhatia, 399
38 Data and privacy literacy: the role of the school in educating children in a datafied society / Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova & Rishita Nandagiri, 413
39 Media education and dynamic research: known unknowns and rich intersections / Julian McDougall & Isabella Rega, 427
40 Radical media education practices from social movement media: lessons from teaching and learning in Lebanon / Gretchen King, 441
41 Activating student voice and choice globally: reframing negative narratives in Ghana, West Africa / Ed Madison, 449
42 Advocacy as media education: the educational activities of digital rights advocates / Efrat Daskal, 459
43 Cyberbullying, media education and agents of socialization in Montenegro / Ida Cortoni & Jelena Perovic, 467