Review of Literature on Media Literacy

Media literacy is a topic that has attracted a wide variety of scholars as well as non‐scholars. This review begins with an analysis of how media literacy has been defined by the range of contributors to the huge and growing literature on media literacy. The review then lays out the big picture concerning media literacy interventions as well as how media literacy has been regarded within the institution of public education. The review concludes with a series of recommendations about conceptualizations, research, and instruction.     

论大学生的媒体素养教育

随着现代技术的高速发展,媒体对大学生和大学教育的影响越来越大,作为教育对象的学生的生活和学习都打上了媒体的烙印,而教育者在丰富教学内容、改善教学方法、提高教学效果方面也往往借助于媒体的力量。网络和短信等新兴媒体的出现．更给大学的文化建设、学生工作带来前所未有的挑战。因此,媒体素养教育亟待重视,也必将成为大学文化建设和学生日常教育与管理工作的重要内容。     

新媒介素养与青年能力构建

以网络和手机为代表的新媒介已经极大地改变了青年的媒介交互模式与社会的大众传播模式,当前,青年的媒介素养,特别是新媒介素养滞后于新媒介科技的发展。在这个全新的信息社会中进行数字化生存的青年．急需培养与之匹配的新媒介素养能力。这些能力包括培养信息素养与新媒介素养融合、交互,最终促使青年养成并达到一体化的新能力：形成青年解析媒介信息必然反映“某种意识形态和价值观念”,是政治社会化必然过程的认知新能力;提高青年强化维护“信息主权”。防范“信息入侵”行动性的能力。     

Religious Media Literacy: Toward a Research Agenda

Silk (1995) proposed in Unsecular Media that journalists operate with a limited series of topoi and that these are borrowed from religion. Silk thus claimed when journalists write about religion, they do so in a way that ultimately supports religious values. In this study, I apply topic analysis to recent news coverage of Jesse Jackson's marital infidelity to determine the extent to which the topos of hypocrisy was employed and whether this employment supported or challenged a religious (as opposed to secular) worldview.     

高校辅导员媒介素养的提升策略

高校辅导员大多与在校大学生年龄相仿,学习与生活场域接近,被誉为大学生身心成长与政治成熟的第一导师。辅导员的媒介素养将直接对大学生产生影响。辅导员的媒介使用习惯符合青年学生的新媒介使用特点,具有较强的贴近性和互动性。辅导员应当利用这种优势,提升媒介素养,如加强关注信息专注力、提升信息识别力,提高媒介参与力和提升舆论引导力,在舆论引导、网络思政等方面发挥人生导师的作用。     

青少年媒体素养的提高与学生类报刊的职责

信息时代,媒体已经成为人们生活中不可缺少的一部分。每个人都面临着如何选择、判断和利用信息的问题,青少年更是如此。作为以青少年为主要读者的学生类报刊,在向青少年传播知识的过程中,也担负着培养、提高青少年媒体素养的职责。青少年媒体素养的提高是一个渐进的过程,从阅读能力的提高到鉴别能力的提升,学生类报刊都应该发挥自身优势,贡献自己特有的力量,这是媒体应该承担的社会责任,也是国家未来发展的需求。     

关系视阈下流动儿童媒介素养构建

随着城镇化进程的加速和城乡二元结构的逐渐瓦解,越来越多的留守儿童转变成为跟随父母进城的流动儿童,受经济、家庭、社会、心理及自身流动性等因素影响,在个人媒介素养建构过程中,流动儿童面临诸多挑战。从关系的角度看,流动儿童作为媒介使用的主体,在媒介使用的过程中会与外部环境产生冲突与对抗,且这种冲突在无外来帮助的情况下难以与外部环境达成"冲突—和解"的动态平衡。在此语境下,通过应用"生态关系说"的方法来协调流动儿童与媒介、家长、学校以及社会之间的关系,可以为流动儿童媒介素养的构建提供一种全新的视角。     

Teaching Media and Religion: Emerging Best Practices

This preface summarizes the emergence of religion and media courses from the 1950s to the present day. It makes the case for why analysis of religion and media coursework is a challenge and reports on research that shows enormous diversity among the types of courses commonly classified as within the “religion and media” subject. The preface furthermore summarizes the other articles in this special issue.     

Teaching Religion and Media: Syllabi and Pedagogy

This study explores the pedagogy of Religion and Media. The topic has garnered growing attention in recent years (Stout, 2012 Stout, D. (2012). Media and religion: Foundations of an emerging field. New York, NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) and the sheer array of classes is a testament to its status as a lively growing topic. This study takes a nonnormative, exploratory approach to uncover four key categorical approaches to how the topic of religion and media is taught in universities. The methodology included a textual analysis of 48 syllabi and interviews with professors who teach religion and media.     

The Relationships of Information Efficacy and Media Literacy Skills to Knowledge and Self-efficacy for Health-Related Decision Making

Abstract

Objective: To compare the extent to which information efficacy (confidence for acquiring useful information) and media literacy skills predict knowledge and self-efficacy for preventing or treating the health threat of influenza. Participants: A random-sample survey of 1,379 residential students enrolled at a northwestern public university was conducted in fall 2009. Methods: Students accessed an Internet survey through a link provided in an e-mail. Results: Students who self-diagnosed correctly demonstrated higher levels of media literacy skills than those who self-diagnosed incorrectly. Among those who self-diagnosed incorrectly, the only predictor of knowledge was accessibility of information sources; low accessibility was associated with reduced knowledge. Information efficacy predicted self-efficacy for both groups. Conclusions: The results illustrate the limitations of information efficacy in the absence of media literacy skills. To decrease health risks, college health practitioners should promote media literacy while also ensuring easy access to high-quality information.     

Working Hard for the Money: A Faith-Based Media Literacy Analysis of the Top Television Dramas of 2000-2001

This article analyzes 5 of the highest-rated television dramas from the 2000-2001 season in terms of "faith-based" media literacy. It strives for a more systematic and conceptually sound critique that gets beyond the casual assessments frequently found in the popular press. Synthesizing social science and theological constructs, I present a values-based framework for studying how television creates meaning. Such an approach may be useful to viewers seeking a more substantive and conceptually rich definition of media literacy from a principle-based perspective.     

媒介融合背景下构建大学英语立体化教学模式

媒介融合背景下,构建大学英语立体化的教学模式,线上线下一体化教学设计,以学生为主体,适应学生个性化自主学习需求,可有效提高学生自主学习能力和英语综合应用能力。     

Teaching Social Work Students to use Advocacy Skills Through the Mass Media

Teaching social work students and practitioners to work effectively with the media is a valuable component of efforts to provide skills to influence the development of social policies and services addressed to vulnerable populations. The author focuses on mass media communications research, examples drawn from social work and other human service professions, and instructional activities in social work education to examine and illustrate how participation in the mass communication network can further the social policy goals of the social work profession.     

Community Literacy Resources and Home Literacy Practices Among Immigrant Latino Families

ABSTRACT

This paper reports relationships among communities, families, and Spanish-speaking children's language and literacy development in kindergarten and grade 1. Findings from a study of 35 communities show that communities with greater concentrations of Latinos are less likely to have printed materials, and available materials are more likely to be in Spanish. Communities with higher income and education levels have more literacy materials in English. Contrary to predictions, there are few associations among community literacy resources, frequency of children's home reading activities, and children's literacy achievement. This lack of association is due to within-community variation in home literacy practices and to schools' impact on home literacy. However, there are associations among community and family language characteristics and child literacy outcomes in Spanish and English, suggesting that at least in the early stages of literacy development, communities' influence on Spanish-speaking children's literacy development is through language-learning opportunities rather than literacy-learning opportunities per se.     

多元智能理论在传媒专业大学英语教学中的应用

根据加德纳的多元智能理论,人类的智能分为九类。不同的个体具有不同的个性特征和智能组合,每个个体都有各自的强势智能及强势智能组合。本研究着重探讨多元智能理论在传媒专业大学英语教学中的应用,探讨如何充分发挥传媒专业学生的特点及强势智能,进行优化的教学设计,从而提高教学效果,提高传媒专业学生的英语应用能力。     

Literacy in the modern world

Books reviewed in this article:
Clark, R. and Ivanic, R. The Politics of Writing
Hasan, Ruqaiya and Williams, Geoff (eds.). Literacy in Society (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
Johns, Ann M. Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
Lankshear, Colin with Gee, James Paul; Knobel, Michele and Searle, Chris. Changing Literacies
Andre´e, Tabouret-Keller; Le Page, Robert B.; Gardner-Chloros, Penelope and Varro, Gabrielle (eds.). Vernacular Literacy: A Re-evaluation (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)