Media Literacy, Equity, and Justice

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Offering a new and thought-provoking look at media literacy education, this book brings together a range of perspectives that address the past, present, and future of media literacy, equity and justice. Straddling media studies, literacy education, and social justice education, this book comes at a time when the media’s role as well as our media intake and perceptions are being disrupted. As a result, questions of censorship, free speech, accountability abound, and nuance is often lost. This book is an antidote to the challenges facing media literacy education: chapters offer a careful examination of important and hot topics, including AI, authenticity, representation, climate change, activism and more. Addressing the continually evolving role of media and its impact on our society and shared knowledge base, the volume is organized around five themes: Misinformation and Disinformation; Media Representation; Civic Media, Politics and Policy; Eco Media Literacy; Education and Equity, Ethical Quandaries and Ideologies; and Emerging Technologies. Ideal for courses on media literacy and new literacies, this book furthers the conversation on the ways literacy and social justice are connected to educational communities in local and global contexts. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Shaping Dialogue Amid Broken Conversations PART I: Truth, Trust, Fact, and Fiction: What Information? 2. Couches, Kitchens, and Conspiracy: Lifestyle Marketing in the Midst of a Crisis 3. Facts, Opinions, and News: How the Infodemic Revealed the Need for a Media and News Literacy Pedagogy 4. How Social Media Has Transformed Social Justice into an “Enemy” of the Brazilian People 5. ICT and Media Education Curriculum for Teachers in the Post-Truth Era PART II: Media Representation/Misrepresentation 6. Representation in Imagery and Language 7. In a Time of Crisis Who Can We Trust?: A Call to Action from the Margins 8. The Impact of News Media Exclusion: Understanding and Addressing the Under-Representation of Young People in the News 9. Hollywood and Hope: Looking at Social Justice and Human Rights through a Critical Media Literacy Lens PART III: Civic Media, Politics, and Policy 10. Media Education and Citizenship in Neoliberal Times 11. Media Literacy and Social Justice: Connections, Fissures, and the Future 12. Media Literacy, Values, and Drivers of Youth Civic Engagement: Reflecting on Two Decades of Research 13. Media Literacy as Civic Discourse: A Framework for Inquisitive “Listening” and Authentic “Speaking”in a Digital Space PART IV: Ecomedia Literacy: Climate, Public & Digital Spaces and Places 14. Ecomedia Literacy: Decolonizing Media and the Climate Emergency 15. Media Literacy Goes Outside: A Case for Speculative Realism and Environmental Activism in the Media Arts Classroom 16. Interrogating Power and Transforming Education with Critical Media Literacy 17. Equity through Expression: Media Literacy, Creativity, and Arts-based Pedagogy PART V: Education and Equity 18. Media Environments: A Dynamic Model of Media Literacy, Activism, and Change 19. Talking Back: Media, Archival Pedagogy, and Podcasting 20. Equity in K-12 Education in the Age of COVID-19: Comparing Five European Countries 21. Health, Science, and Reliability—A Classroom Perspective 22. Making, Feeling and Moving among Media: A Pupil’s Right PART VI: Ethical Quandaries: Ideologies 23. Surveillance and the Edtech Imaginary via the Mundane Stuff of Schooling 24. A Right to Lie in the Age of Disinformation: Protecting Free Speech beyond the First Amendment 25. The Ethics of the New Wave of Censorship: A Media Literacy Perspective 26. Social Media: The New Ethical Court PART VII: Emerging Technologies: Algorithms, ArtificialIntelligence, and Future Considerations 27. Virtual Reality, Empathy, Solidarity: Immersive Media Literacy and Social Justice Activism 28. Whose Justice?—Media Literacy for Handling Internet Public Trials 29. Algorithmic Social Justice through Participatory Action Research: Media Binds or Blinds? 30. Reconceptualizing Media Literacy for the Mid-twenty-first Century: A Vision of Media and Society 2022–2040 Contributor Biographies Index