"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. The field of media literacy continues to undergo changes and challenges as audiences are reconceptualized and reconfigured, media industries are transformed and replaced, and the production of media texts is available to anyone with a smartphone. The book provides an overview of these. It offers readers specific examples and recommendations to help others as they develop their own teaching and research agendas." (Publisher description)
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
1 Global Perspectives on Media Literacy / Belinha S. De Abreu
2 A Snapshot: The State of Media Literacy Education in the U.S. / Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Sherri Hope Culver, Theresa Redmond
3 Media Literacy in the Age of Big Data / Kathleen Tyner
4 Four Fundamental Challenges in Designing Media Literacy Interventions / W. James Potter
PART TWO: MEDIA LITERACY, NEWS AND PROPAGANDA
5 Focusing on Facts: Media and News Literacy Education in the Age of Misinformation / Jennifer Fleming and Christopher Karadjov
6 Propaganda Critic, Russian Disinformation, and Media Literacy: A Case Study / Aaron Delwiche and Mary Margaret Herring
7 The Imperative of Latino-Oriented News & Media Literacy / Federico Subervi-Vélez, Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno
8 Blame Attribution, Warrants and Critical Thinking: South Africa's Overvaal Debacle as a Case Study / Marthinus Conradie
9 Media Literacy and a Typology of Political Deceptions / Robert N. Spicer
PART THREE: MEDIA LITERACY AND EDUCATION
10 Professional Education and Media Literacy: Oil and Water? / William G. Christ
11 News Media Literacy in the Digital Age: A Measure of Need and Usefulness of a University Curriculum in Egypt / Rasha Allam and Salma El Ghetany
12 The MOOC for Media Literacy: Examining Media Literacy Practices in a Massive Open Online Course / Kristy Roschke
13 A Model for Media Literacy Across a Lifespan: Wisdom from Pedagogical Pilots / George L. Daniels
PART FOUR: MEDIA LITERACY AND SOCIAL ACTION
14 Civic Standpoint and the pursuit of Media Literacies / Paul Mihailidis, Moses Shumow, Christopher Harris
15 The Colombian Freedom of Information Act: Using Media Literacy to Understand and Implement the Law / Paula Perez, Jairo Becerra, Julian Rodriguez
16 The Literacies of Participatory Cultures / Jennifer J. Henderson
17 Civic Engagement, Social Justice, and Media Literacy / Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian and Ramin Chaboki Darzabi
18 Critical Media Literacy and Environmental Justice / Jeff Share