Media Literacy

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    This was clearly illustrated in the fall of 1999, when the Los Angeles Times Magazine devoted coverage of the Staples Center, a new sports arena. The publisher, Kathryn M. Downing, had entered into a partnership agreement on the issue ...

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    W. James Potter. videos) and then distribute those ... The most popular of these are what are called social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook (begun in 2004) and Twitter (begun in 2006). In 2008, 24% of the U.S. population were ...

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    ... and a Pew Research Center study reported that 55% of college presidents said plagiarism had increased in the past decade; 89% of those who thought plagiarizing was on the increase cited the Internet as a major reason (Gormly, 2012).

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    To further illustrate the idea of a range of perceptions of reality, consider the situation as described in Box 8.1 regarding the television show Gilligan's Island. The people who wrote to the Coast Guard, begging them to rescue ...

  • Media Literacy: New Agendas in Communication
    By Kathleen Tyner

    ... by and through the digitextual nature of the new media of information and communication technology (ICT). ... More important, it presents an understanding of the human subject in terms of an embodied subjectivity that takes us ...

  • Media Literacy: Section 5 of the Insight English Handbook
    By Melanie Napthine

    Media Literacy: Section 5 of the Insight English Handbook

  • Media Literacy
    By Melanie Napthine

    Section 5 of Insight's essential resource the Insight English Handbook is now available as a separate reference, economically priced and in a handy new compact size.

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    The Ninth Edition has been thoroughly updated to evolve with the ever-changing media landscape and features a new chapter on fake news, debating what we as news consumers can do to recognize fake news in order to avoid its influence.

  • Media Literacy: New Agendas in Communication
    By Kathleen Tyner

    This volume explores how educators can leverage student proficiency with new literacies for learning in formal and informal educational environments.

  • Media Literacy: A Reader
    By Shirley R. Steinberg, Donaldo Pereira Macedo

    Textbook

  • Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages
    By Andrew Smith, Julie Smith, Art Silverblatt

    This fourth edition of Keys to Interpreting Media Messages supplies a critical and qualitative approach to media literacy analysis.

  • Media Literacy: An Essential Guide to Critical Thinking Skills for Our Complex Digital World
    By Nick Pernisco

    This book provides a complete guide for learning this important critical thinking skill and using it in everyday life. This is a must-read for anyone interested in interpreting the enormous amounts of media we experience every day.

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    Media Literacy introduces students to the fascinating world that operates behind media messages.

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    Media literacy: Keys to interpreting media messages (4th ed.). Westport: Praeger. (340 pages, including index) This is a mass media book that presents some information about what is needed as far as knowledge about the media.

  • Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages
    By Art Silverblatt

    Media is everywhere but is often a poor source of information. Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical...

  • Media Literacy
    By W. James Potter

    This updated Second Edition of Media Literacy introduces the fascinating world that operates behind visible media messages. This accessible edition includes updated figures and information about computers and the Internet.

  • Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Movies
    By Peyton Paxson

    Investigates the societal, cultural, and economic effects of the Internet Helps students become more informed and discerning Internet users Speaks to a variety of subject areas, including language arts and social studies A Center for Media ...

  • Media Literacy: Grades 7-8
    By Melissa Hart

    Grades 7-8 Melissa Hart. Newspapers. “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!” Newspapers provide day-to-day coverage of events for the public to read and discuss. This powerful form of media has been around since the 1400s. In Renaissance Europe, ...

  • Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about the Internet
    By Peyton Paxson

    Investigates the societal, cultural, and economic effects of the Internet Helps students become more informed and discerning Internet users Speaks to a variety of subject areas, including language arts and social studies A Center for Media ...

  • Media Literacy: Thinking Critically about Television
    By Peyton Paxson

    Builds critical and analytical viewing skills Explores value messages embedded in programs and advertising Helps students recognize the social and economic considerations that affect news reporting A Center for Media Literacy Recommended ...