The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.
How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age
Renee Hobbs and Hans Martens present their paper at the International Communication Association meeting in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, May 26, 3:15 to 4:30pm at the Phoenix Sheraton Downtown Hotel: Encanto A.
Participants:
Can Media Really Be Good?: Media Literacy Education for North Korean Refugees. Jiwon Yoon, Roosevelt U
Factual Mediation, Individual Differences, and Thin-Ideal Exposure’s Effect on Adolescent Girls’ Self-Esteem. Eric E
Rasmussen, Ohio State U; Amy Nathanson, Ohio State U
How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age. Hans Martens, U of Antwerp; Renee Hobbs, U Rhode Island
Mean Girls and Tough Boys: Responses to Media Literacy Lessons on Gender Stereotypes and Bullying. Erica L.
Scharrer, U of Massachusetts; Kimberly Walsh, U of Massachusetts; Laras Sekarasih, U of Massachusetts
Acquisition of Anti-Smoking Media Literacy Skills: A Focus Group Analysis. Yi-Chun (Yvonnes) Chen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U; Christine E. Kaestle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U; Paul Estabrooks, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U; Jamie Zoellner,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U
The Evolution of Video Games and Growing Challenges for Parental Mediation. Hee Jhee Jiow, National U of
Singapore; Sun Sun Lim, National U of Singapore
The Influence of Religion on Parental Mediation of Children’s Internet Use: A Study of Indonesian Muslim Mothers. Yayu
Rahayu, National University of Singapore; Sun Sun Lim, National U of Singapore