Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy

>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
>(ISBN:1932886117, 9781932886115)
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>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Education, Practice and
>Pedagogy (ISBN: 1932886125, 9781932886122)
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>Both texts are edited by Marcus Leaning and published by the Informing
>Science Press.
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>The books chart the dynamic and fast expanding field of media and
>information literacy. As the chapters in these volumes show,
>information and media literacy present new and demanding challenges to
>policy makers, education managers, teachers and educational
>practitioners and perhaps above all, students. International in scope
>the books examine a broad range of critical and practical concerns of
>developing information and media literacy.
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>The tables of contents are as follows:
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>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
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>Preface
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>Section 1 - Theories and Criticism
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>Chapter 1: Theories and Models of Media Literacy
>Marcus Leaning
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>Chapter 2: Media Education as a Technology of Citizenship
>Niina Uusitalo
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>Section 2 - Politics and Policy
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>Chapter 3: The Analogue to Digital Switchover: Media Literacy in the
>Context of Change
>Yasmin Ibrahim
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>Chapter 4: New Media and Media Literacy: A Case Study of Media
>Education Policy in Taiwan
>Tzu-Bin Lin
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>Chapter 5: The Politics of Media Literacy in Ontario and the Struggle
>for Democratic Citizenship and Media
>Kirsten Kozolanka
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>Section 3 - Development and Practice
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>Chapter 6: A Critical Evaluation of Media Literacy in Turkey and
>Suggestions for Developing Social Transformation and Citizenship.
>Mine Gencel Bek & Mutlu Binark
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>Chapter 7: Empowering Children in a Changing Media Environment: Media
>Education in the Maltese Educational System.
>Joseph Borg & Mary Anne Lauri
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>Chapter 8: Information and Media Literacy in the Indian Context:
>Diverse Directions
>Mira K. Desai & Geeta Seshu
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>Section 4 - Histories and Influences
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>Chapter 9: Failures of the past, absences of the present: Peru's
>radical take on Media in the 1970s and its relationship with the
>non-existent Media Literacy scene in the 2000s.
>Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
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>Chapter 10: Media Education in Russia: A Brief History
>Alexander Fedorov 173
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>Chapter 11: The Development of Media Literacy in Russia: Efforts from
>Inside and Outside the Country
>Jiwon Yoon
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>Section 5 - New Directions
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>Chapter 12: ACCEPTED: Visual Literacy from an Interdisciplinary
>Perspective
>Teun Velders, Roberto Muffoletto, Sjoerd de Vries & Piet Kommers