Reconceptualizing Literacy in the Media Age

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7623-0264-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Advances in Reading / Language Research

Information about issues and procedures for media or visual literacy is currently widely dispersed.

This title advances current scholarship by transcending traditional research boundaries and combining a number of different backgrounds, such as cultural studies, reading, computers and technology, sociology, textual criticism. It supports an interdisciplinary curriculum; in depth reviews of how media and visual literacy support and extend current print literacy theories and practices; it provides explicit examples of research methodologies and accounts of implementation procedures and policies in schools and colleges.

This work focuses one a wide spectrum of media like film, television, children's picture books, computers or newspapers. The contributing authors, who read as a who is who in media literacy come from diverse disciplines, locations, and backgrounds, employ varied lenses and formats to provide broad, innovative definitions of literacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pailliotet, Ann Watts

Mosenthal, Peter B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section headings and selected papers:

Preface
Foreword: expanding literacy in a shrinking world, K. Tyler
Introduction: reconceptualizing literacy in the media age, A. Watts Pailliotet

Identity: Reconceptualizing Literacy Stances and Relations
Using media ethnographies to study response to media as activity, R. Beach
Media literacy and spirituality: tales from a university writers' center, L. Briggs

Intermediality: Reconceptualizing Literacy Texts and Processes
Preparing teachers to teach with understanding, V.J. Risko
Girlfriend in a coma: responding to literature through hypermedia, R.F. Hammett
Response to literacy text through media: revisiting conceptualizations of literature and artistic expression, P.I. Mulcahy-Ernt
Inquiry-based learning and the new literacies: media, multimedia, and hypermedia, J.K. Giles et al.

Issues: Reconceptualizing Changing Literacy Contexts
In the belly of the beast: proposing a critical media literacy course for a new general education program at a comprehensive state university, A.S. Wolfe
Integrating standards in K-5 media literacy, L. Lacy
Implementing critical media literacy in school curriculum, L. Semali

Reconceptualizing Future Literacy Theories and Directions
Assessing knowledge restructuring in visually rich, procedural domains: the case for garbage-disposal repair writ/sketched large, P.B. Mosental
The challenge of multimedia literacy, R.E. Mayer
A taxonomy of visual literacy, R. Maribe Branch

Afterword: recommended print and electronic resources for teaching about media and technology in the K-12 classroom, K. Tyner, A. Watts Pailliotet

About the editors and contributors

Leseproben

expanding literacy in a shrinking world (K. Tyler). Introduction: reconceptualizing literacy in the media age (A. Watts Pailliotet). Identity: Reconceptualizing Literacy Stances and Relations. Using media ethnographies to study response to media as activity (R. Beach). Media literacy and spirituality: tales from a university writers' center (L. Briggs). Intermediality: Reconceptualizing Literacy Texts and Processes. Preparing teachers to teach with understanding (V.J. Risko). Girlfriend in a coma: responding to literature through hypermedia (R.F. Hammett). Response to literacy text through media: revisiting conceptualizations of literature and artistic expression (P.I. Mulcahy-Ernt). Inquiry-based learning and the new literacies: media, multimedia, and hypermedia (J.K. Giles et al.). Issues: Reconceptualizing Changing Literacy Contexts. In the belly of the beast: proposing a critical media literacy course for a new general education program at a comprehensive state university (A.S. Wolfe). Integrating standards in K-5 media literacy (L. Lacy). Implementing critical media literacy in school curriculum (L. Semali). Reconceptualizing Future Literacy Theories and Directions. Assessing knowledge restructuring in visually rich, procedural domains: the case for garbage-disposal repair writ/sketched large (P.B. Mosental). The challenge of multimedia literacy (R.E. Mayer). A taxonomy of visual literacy (R. Maribe Branch). Afterword: recommended print and electronic resources for teaching about media and technology in the K-12 classroom (K. Tyner, A. Watts Pailliotet). About the editors and contributors.