Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction by Hoechsmann, Michael

Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405186100)

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Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction by Hoechsmann, Michael

Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction

$38.95
Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction by Hoechsmann, Michael

Media Literacies: A Critical Introduction

$38.95
Format: Paperback
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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


Author: Michael Hoechsmann, Stuart R. Poyntz
ISBN-10: 1405186100
ISBN-13: 9781405186100
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
By Michael Hoechsmann
By Michael Hoechsmann
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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 Cin駑ath鑷ue, 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.

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