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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Winner of the 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award This diverse and global collection of scholars, educators, and activists presents a panorama of perspectives on media education and democracy in a digital age. Drawing upon projects in both the formal and non-formal education spheres, the authors contribute towards conceptualizing, developing, cultivating, building and elaborating a more respectful, robust and critically-engaged democracy. Given the challenges our world faces, it may seem that small projects, programs and initiatives offer just a salve to broader social and political dynamics but these are the types of contestatory spaces, openings and initiatives that enable participatory democracy. This book provides a space for experimentation and dialogue, and a platform for projects and initiatives that challenge or supplement the learning offered by traditional forms of education. The Foreword is written by Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and the Postscript by Roberto Apirici and David García Marín (UNED, Madrid). Contributors are: Roberto Aparici, Adelina Calvo Salvador, Paul R. Carr, Colin Chasi, Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez, Laura D’Olimpio, Milena Droumeva, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ellen Field, Michael Forsman, Divina Frau-Meigs, Aquilina Fueyo Gutiérrez, David García-Marín, Tania Goitandia Moore, José Gutiérrez-Pérez, Ignacio Haya Salmón, Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi, Michael Hoechsmann, Jennifer Jenson, Maria Korpijaakko, Sirkku Kotilainen, Emil Marmol, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo, Tania Ouariachi, Mari Pienimäki, Anna Renfors, Ylva Rodney-Gumede, Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Mar Rodríguez-Romero, Tafadzwa Rugoho, Juha Suoranta, Gina Thésée, Robyn M. Tierney, Robert C. Williams and María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal.
Trade Review“This book offers bold, hopeful, and very timely accounts of grassroots critical media literacy practices in the service of building a participatory democracy worthy of the name in a postmodern world.” – Colin Lankshear, author of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning “A diversity of local projects from around the world, critically presented by authors who explore the convergence of formal, non-formal and informal education spheres with ubiquitous and lifelong education. Media education is represented here as inevitably linked to social justice, environmental education and other burning issues of our time.” – Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid (Segovia)
Table of ContentsForeword: Lasting Lessons Learned from the “Fake News” Crisis MIL as the 1st Curriculum Divina Frau-Meigs Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis Michael Hoechsmann, Gina Thésée and Paul R. Carr PART 1: Engaging the Community 1 Ubuntu: Innovation and Decolonization in Media and Communication Studies Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede 2 Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace Robyn M. Tierney 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education: The School as Sandbox for Democracy 2.0 María Rodríguez-Romero 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth: Shades of Democracy 2.0 from Finland Mari Pienimäki and Sirkku Kotilainen 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe Tafadzwa Rugoho 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education: A Powerful Amalgam for Today’s Radical Democracy Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez and Tania Goitandia Moore PART 2: Framing Media Literacy 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust: Critical Thinking and Critical Consciousness and the Biopolitics of the Emerging Media Citizen Michael Forsman 8 Buying in to Participatory Culture?: Critical Media Literacy and Social Media Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ignacio Haya Salmón and Adelina Calvo Salvador 9 Gaming Education: Learning about Climate Change through Digital Game-Based Teaching Tania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo and José Gutiérrez-Pérez 10 Not without Us: A Feminist Pedagogy for Media Education 2.0 Aquilina Fueyo 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL: Or Can Social Media Foster Environmental Learning and Activism? Ellen Field 12 The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social Consequences Maria Leena Korpijaakko PART 3: Transforming the Classroom 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy through Game-Making Milena Droumeva and Jennifer Jenson 14 Post-Truth Explorers: Information Literacy vs. Fake News María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal and Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi 15 Nine Key Insights: For a Robust and Holistic Critical News Media Literacy Emil Marmol 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy Robert C. Williams 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity Anna Renfors and Juha Suoranta 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker: Philosophical Engagement with New Media in the Classroom Laura D’Olimpio Postscript: Bubbles and Baubles: Seeking Democracy 2.0 in a Post-Factual World Roberto Aparici and David García-Marín Index
