The Journal of Media Literacy Digital Issues

Democracy by Collision or Connection? The Crisis of the Public Commons

In trying to understand the causes of polarization, we needed to discover how democracy was being practiced in these spaces. Then we could ask ourselves what role media literacy education plays in upholding the values needed to maintain strong public spaces of discourse.

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Conference Reflections

A unique feature of attending conferences in far off places is the ability to bring both together culture and research– a lived experience that is made special by the time and place as well as the people who make conference events happen. This issue brings together work presented at various conferences as well as reflections from attendees.

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Media and Information Literacy: Enriching the Teacher/Librarian Dialogue

The shift in point of view from libraries as warehouses of information to the ‘third space’ concept supports both library spaces and library workers as change agents with an eye towards the future, and in support of the communities they serve, especially as it relates to media and information literacy.

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RETURNING TO NORMALCY: EXCHANGES AND INTERCHANGES

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LITERACY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ‘22

What happens when you bring people together in a common space to discuss media literacy and the world? Synergy.

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The Human-Algorithmic Question: A Media Literacy Education Exploration

The proliferation of new media formats has created a high bar for effective storytelling that present a challenge to traditional education, schooling and learning as well as for media production and consumption itself.

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Education as Storytelling and the Implications for Media Literacy

The proliferation of new media formats has created a high bar for effective storytelling that present a challenge to traditional education, schooling and learning as well as for media production and consumption itself.

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EcoMedia literacy

Our first digital issue is a collaboration with the Journal of Sustainability Education, broadening our understanding of media literacy from an ecological perspective, reframing the metaphors we use about media experiences and our relationship to the earth. A big thank you to JSE, our guest editors, and authors for their work on this important and timely topic!

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