Description
Book SynopsisExploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative provides a wide-ranging look at the origins, concepts, theories, and practices of the field. This unique, exciting collection of essays by a range of distinguished scholars and practitioners offers insights into the scholars and thinkers who fertilized the minds ofthose who helped shape the theory and practice of digital and media literacy education. Each chapter describes an individual whom the author considers to be a type of grandparent. By weaving together two sets of personal storiesthat of the contributing author and that of the key ideas and life history of the historical figure under their scrutinymajor concepts of digital media and learning emerge.
Table of ContentsContents:
Introduction and the Landscape
Historical Roots of Media Literacy
David Weinberger on Martin Heidegger
Lance Strate on Marshall McLuhan
Dana Polan on Roland Barthes
Cynthia Lewis on Mikhail Bakhtin
Srividya Ramasubramanian on Gordon Allport
Michael RobbGrieco on Michel Foucault
Gianna Cappello on Theodor Adorno
Douglas Kellner on Herbert Marcuse
Henry Jenkins on John Fiske
Amy Petersen Jensen on Bertolt Brecht
Donna Alvermann on Simone de Beauvoir
Jeremiah Dyehouse on John Dewey
Renee Hobbs on Jerome Bruner
Vanessa Domine on Neil Postman
Peter Gutierrez on Scott McCloud
Susan Moeller on Roland Barthes
