Book description
Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction
traces the history of media literacy and grapples with the fresh
challenges posed by the convergent media of the 21st century. The book
provides a much-needed guide to what it means to be literate in today's
media-saturated environment.
- Updates traditional models of media literacy by examining how
digital media is utilized in today's convergent culture
- Explores the history and emergence of media education, the
digitally mediated lives of today's youth, digital literacy, and
critical citizenship
- Complete with sidebar commentary written by leading media
researchers and educators spotlighting new research in the field and
an annotated bibliography of key texts and resources
Michael Hoechsmann
is Associate Professor and Chair of Education Programs at Lakehead
University, Orillia. He is co-author of Reading Youth Writing: 'New'
Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education
(2008), and the former Director of Education of Young People's Press, a
youth-oriented non-profit news service.
Stuart Poyntz is Assistant Professor in the School of
Communication at Simon Fraser University, and the former Director of
Education at Pacific Cinémathèque, Western Canada's leading film
institute. He has published articles in the Review of
Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Sociology
Compass, the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, the
Canadian Journal of Education, Taboo: The Journal of
Culture and Education, and various edited collections.
