Description
- Updates traditional models of media literacy by examining how digital media is utilized in today's convergent culture
- Explores the history and emergence of media education, the digitally mediated lives of today's youth, digital literacy, and critical citizenship
- Complete with sidebar commentary written by leading media researchers and educators spotlighting new research in the field and an annotated bibliography of key texts and resources
About the Author
Michael Hoechsmann is Associate Professor and Chair of Education Programs at Lakehead University, Orillia. He is co-author of Reading Youth Writing: 'New' Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education (2008), and the former Director of Education of Young People's Press, a youth-oriented non-profit news service.
Stuart Poyntz is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, and the former Director of Education at Pacific Cinematheque, Western Canada's leading film institute. He has published articles in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Sociology Compass, the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, the Canadian Journal of Education, Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, and various edited collections.
Reviews
"That being the case, the authors' primary recommendation is for media literacy to assume an increased role in school curricula worldwide. As Hoechsmann and Poyntz demonstrate, media practice is sufficiently academic and promotes critical citizenship, agency and empowerment - qualities that all teachers are sure to agree are highly laudable educational outcomes." (Pedagogies: An International Journal, 24 May 2012)
Book Information
ISBN 9781405186100
Author Michael Hoechsmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 313g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 13mm
