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The Journal of Media Literacy – Democracy by Collision or Connection? The Crisis of the Public Commons


Table of Contents


Editorial Team Letters


Media Literacy’s Role in Preserving and Redefining the Public Commons

Karen Ambrosh, Belinha De Abreu

Holding space for the commons

Michael Hoechsmann, María Luisa Zorrilla
We were tasked with finding a manner to articulate a place of commonality in what appeared to be a very polarized public sphere.

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

María Luisa Zorrilla, Michael Hoechsmann
This JML issue is dedicated to the crisis of the public commons, its implications, and how it is addressed across different contexts.


Inside This Edition:


I. Exploring the Commons

Transforming the Public Commons in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Renee Cherow-O’Leary

The Canicab Charter: A Mayan Model for Data Governance

Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh, Aurelio Sánchez Suárez

Advancing Land-Relations through the Digital Commons: The Working Toward Self-Determination Together, Indigenous Research and Data Governance Project

Lana Ray, Aurelio Sánchez Suárez

Social Media and Diasporic Digital Communion: The Ukrainian Experience

Alla Kachanivska

The Ecomedia Commons: An Ecomedia Literacy Analysis of ChatGPT

Antonio López, Rachel Guldin

Three Case Studies of Power in Pixels: The Female Protagonist in Viral Protest Photography

Miranda McKee

III. Addressing the crisis of the Commons

Navigating the Public Commons: A Student Perspective on Democracy and Public Space

Alejandro Jose Ramos

Civil Discourse and Democracy: Unteaching Divisive Argumentation Through Critical Inquiry

Alaa Al-Musalli

Tik Tok, Teenagers and Phygital Wars

Katerina Chryssanthopoulou

III. Media Literacy in view

State of Play of Media Literacy at National Level: An evidence-based approach towards setting national policy models of media literacy

Irene Andriopoulou

Making the invisible visible: Emancipatory approaches to algorithmic literacy in Brazilian education

Mariana Ochs

Storytelling for Social Justice: A Case Study of Secondary School Media Literacy Curriculum as Global Citizenship in Action   

Meredith Baldi, Prescott Seraydarian

Student Media Projects Elevate Student Voices: UN Sustainability Goals

Andrea DeGette

Are High Impact Approaches Helpful in Boosting News Media Literacy? Lessons from an Online Experiment Conducted in the United States During the 2024 Election Season

Alina Oxendine, Zack Sullivan

Building Civic Competencies: Design and Outcomes in Media Literacy and Critical Thinking Instruction

Barbara Robertson, Tamra Ortgies-Young


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