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Peer reviewedDaschmann, Gregor; Brosius, Hans-Bernd – Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 1999
Contributes to the building of journalism and news-reporting theory and scholarship on news reception. Finds a ubiquitous use of examples presented in media coverage confirming the angle from which a story has been presented. Finds that exemplars are often presented along with vague generalizations, which leave the viewer little chance of judging…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Journalism Research
Direct linkMcBrien, J. Lynn – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Much has been written about the power of media to influence the public through instruments of advertising and a variety of venues (Considine & Haley, 1999; Cortes, 2000; Kilbourne, 1999). In this chapter, the author has chosen to use a singular media focus--news--to support the critical importance of teaching media literacy skills to students. She…
Descriptors: Muslims, Democracy, Critical Thinking, Media Literacy
Thoman, Elizabeth; Jolls, Tessa – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Today information about the world around people comes to them not only through words on a piece of paper, but more and more through the powerful images and sounds of their multimedia culture. This explosion in information has presented a major challenge to the world of formal education. The transformation of their culture from an industrial age to…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Guidelines, Internet, Values
Cortes, Carlos E. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
The mass media teach whether or not mediamakers intend to or realize it, and users learn from the media whether or not they try or are even aware of it. This means all of the media, including newspapers, magazines, movies, television, radio, and the new cyberspace media serve as informal yet omnipresent nonschool textbooks. This raises an…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Values, Role Models, Expectation
Pungente, John J.; Duncan, Barry; Anderse, Neil – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Media literacy educators from the United States regularly pay homage to their colleagues in Canada. Canadians have talked about, thought about, taught about, and written about media literacy for many years. Canada first hosted a World Conference in media literacy in Guelph, Ontario, in 1990, and all provinces in Canada now include media literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Educational History, Educational Theories
Semali, Ladislaus – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
In this chapter, the author presents arguments to support a school curriculum that might forge a life of justice as well as develop a rational, analytical, and critical understanding of media texts that students use in classrooms and in out-of-school contexts. First, he begins by laying out the rationale for why media literacy matters in schools.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Class Activities, Citizenship, Learning Activities
