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May M-arketplace Feature

May M-arketplace Feature

[ 0 ] May 1, 2012

A.D.D.: Adolescent Demo Division ($24.15 + free shipping). NAMLE National Advisory Board Member, Douglas Rushkoff, (also a world-renowned media theorist, Frontline TV correspondent and author) writes about the world’s luckiest teen gamers—the Adolescent Demo Division. The A.D.D. are Raised from birth to test media, appear on reality TV and enjoy the fruits of corporate culture, the squad [...]

March M-arketplace Feature

March M-arketplace Feature

[ 0 ] March 1, 2012

Exploring Media Literacy Series by Compass Books. Authors include Erika Wittekind and Barb Paiser ($8.95 each). Each of these 80-page paperbacks are tailored for middle school reading levels 6-7 and address a key topic in the field of media literacy. Students learn how violence is used in the media and how it affects audiences; why media [...]

February M-arketplace Feature

February M-arketplace Feature

[ 0 ] February 2, 2012

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 [...]

January M-arketplace Feature

January M-arketplace Feature

[ 0 ] December 31, 2011

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 [...]

December M-arketplace Feature: Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control

December M-arketplace Feature: Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control

[ 0 ] December 19, 2011

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 [...]