Media Literacy, Equity, and Justice

Belinha S. De Abreu is an International Media Literacy Educator and Professor at Sacred Heart University, USA.

Foreword

Jad Melki

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Shaping Dialogue Amid Broken Conversations

Belinha S. De Abreu

Part I: Truth, Trust, Fact & Fiction—What information?

Chapter 2: Couches, kitchens and conspiracy: Lifestyle marketing in the midst of a crisis

Michael Hoechsmann, and iowyth hezel ulthiin

Chapter 3: Facts, opinions and news: how the infodemic revealed the need for Media & News Literacy Pedagogy

Katerina Chryssanthopoulou

Chapter 4: How social media has transformed Social Justice in an "enemy" of Brazilian People?

Isly Viana

Chapter 5: ICT and Media Education Curriculum for Teachers in the Post-Truth Era

Alfonso Gutiérrez-Martín & Alba Torrego-González

Part II. Media Representation/Misrepresentation

Chapter 6: Representation in Imagery and Language

Jimmeka Anderson and Deneen Dixon-Payne

Chapter 7: In a Time of Crisis who can we Trust: A Call to Action from the Margins

Angela Cooke-Jackson

Chapter 8: The Impact of Media Exclusion: Analysing the Representation of Young Australians in The News

Tanya Notley and Michael Dezuanni

Chapter 9: Hollywood & Hope: Looking at Social Justice and Human Rights through a Critical Media Lens

Rose Pacatte and Bonnie Abaunza

Part III. Civic Media, Politics, and Policy

Chapter 10: Media education and citizenship in neoliberal times

David Buckingham

Chapter 11: Media Literacy and Social Justice: Connections, Fissures, and the Future

Spencer Brayton and Natasha Casey

Chapter 12: Media Literacy, Values, and Drivers of Youth Civic Engagement

Roman Gerodimos

Chapter 13: Media Literacy as Civic Discourse: A Framework for Inquisitive "Listening" and Authentic "Speaking" in a Digital Space

Meredith Baldi & Prescott Seraydarian

Part IV. Eco Media Literacy- Climate, Public & Digital Spaces and Places

Chapter 14: Ecomedia Literacy: Decolonizing Media and the Climate Emergency

Antonio López

Chapter 15: Media Literacy Goes Outside: A Case for Speculative Realism & Environmental Justice in the Media Arts Classroom

Benjamin Thevenin

Chapter 16: Interrogating Power & Transforming Education with Critical Media Literacy

Jeff Share

Chapter 17: Equity through Expression: Media Literacy, Creativity, and Arts-based Pedagogy

Theresa Redmond, Tempestt Adams, and Peaches Hash

Part V: Education and Equity

Chapter 18: Media Environments: A Dynamic Model of Media Literacy, Activism, and Change

Katherine G. Fry

Chapter 19: Talking Back: Media, Archival Pedagogy, and Podcasting

Donna Alvermann

Chapter 20: Equity in K-12 Education in the age of COVID-19: Comparing Five European Countries

Vitor Tomé, Divina Frau-Meigs, Igor Kanizaj, Marika Sikharulidze, and Oksana Pasichnyk

Chapter 21: Health, Science, and Reliability—A Classroom Perspective

Joanna Marshall

Chapter 22: Making, feeling and moving among media: a pupil's right

Michelle Cannon

Part VI: Ethical Quandaries: Ideologies

Chapter 23: Surveillance and the edtech imaginary via the mundane stuff of schooling

Michelle Ciccone

Chapter 24: The Constitutional Right to Lie and the Moral Duty to tell the Truth

João Marecos and Francisco de Abreu Duarte

Chapter 25: The Ethics of the New Wave of Censorship: A Media Literacy Perspective

Nancy Usselmann

Chapter 26: Social Media: the new ethical court

Taciane Batista

Part VII: Emerging Technologies: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Future Considerations

Chapter 27: Virtual Reality and the "Empathy Machine": Immersive Media Literacy and Social Justice Activism

Candace Parrish, Shanshan Wang, and James Castonguay

Chapter 28: Chapter Whose Justice? – Media Literacy for Handling Internet Media Trial

Alice Y. L. Lee

Chapter 29: Algorithmic Social Justice through Participatory Action Research: Media Binds or Blinds?

Melda N. Yildiz

Chapter 30: Reconceptualizing Media Literacy for the Mid-21st Century: A Vision of Media and Society 2022-2040

Renee Cherow-O’Leary

Contributor Biographies