Media and Terrorism: Global Terrorism. Edited by Des Freedman and Daya Kishan Thussu (Sage/$45.18 + free shipping). Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world’s media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current [...]
Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom. by Frank Baker (ISTE/$35.95 + free shipping). NAMLE past president, Frank W. Baker will show you how you can bring media literacy into your classroom—whether that classroom is English language arts, social studies, health, or any other subject—and teach students skills that enable them to become knowledgeable media consumers [...]
Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control: Language Deception and Digital Democracy. by Ricardo D. Rosa & Joao J. Rosa (Peter Lang/$34.95 + free shipping). Supported by critical theoretical frameworks, the text is a purposeful engagement with bodies of knowledge rooted in popular culture, yet, routinely excluded from “common sense”; visions of curriculum. Aimed at [...]
Media Education Goes to School: Young People Make Meaning of Media & Urban Education. by Allison Butler (Peter Lang/$32.53 + free shipping). This book examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research–specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation–the text focuses on [...]
NAMLE’s May 2011 Feature: We’ve Scene it All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training Brian Johnson (Bloomsburg University) harnesses the power of mainstream Hollywood film to enhance educational sessions about diversity and social justice. This resource manual offers practical guidance on how to effectively use the concept of difference as a starting point towards [...]
Jackie Marsh (Editor) offers a range of perspectives on children’s multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: media and identity construction media [...]
What’s New on Favorite Media Literacy Sites
