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Table of Contents

Media Literacy

Editor’s Introduction: Media Education,

Media Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Media Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1. Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2. What Is Media Literacy Education? . . . . . . . . . . 5

A. The need today: Our media-saturated culture . .6

B. Qualitative changes brought about by

digital media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3. The Growth of Media Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

A. Audio recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

B. Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

C. Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

D. Media education history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4. Searching for Commonality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5. Computer Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

6. Empirical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

A. Interpersonal interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

B. Assessing school programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

C. Media literacy education in health . . . . . . . . . 16

7. Looking Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Online Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Additional bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Reviews of literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Digital literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

International media literacy studies . . . . . . . . . . 22

General—research reports, methodologies, etc.. .23

Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Briefly Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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