Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative offers a unique contribution in that it features more than a dozen distinguished authors discussing their views on the history of digital and media literacy from a range of different scholarly standpoints. Mixing well-recognized authors alongside some lesser-known and highly notable voices from a range of disciplines, Hobbs' book will tap the curiosity of readers who want to explore connections at the intersection of film/media studies, communication, and education. The individuals featured weave narratives of the integral scholars from previous generations whose work most influenced their own path. The collection offers a view on some of the earlier intellectual roots that ground the complex, multiply-defined constructs of digital literacy and media literacy."

—Rebecca Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University
 

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Each chapter describes an individual whom the author considers to be a type of "grandparent." By weaving together two sets of personal stories-that of the contributing author and that of the key ideas and life history of the historical figure under their scrutiny-major concepts of digital media and learning emerge.

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Introduction ■ Renee Hobbs

1 Historical Roots of Media Literacy ■ Renee Hobbs

2 David Weinberger on Martin Heidegger ■ David Weinberger

3 Lance Strate on Marshall McLuhan ■ Lance Strate

4 Dana Polan on Roland Barthes ■ Dana Polan

5 Cynthia Lewis on Mikhail Bakhtin ■ Cynthia Lewis

6 Srividya Ramasubramanian on Gordon Allport ■ Srividya Ramasubramanian

7 Michael RobbGrieco on Michel Foucault ■ Michael RobbGrieco

8 Gianna Cappello on Theodor Adorno ■ Gianna Cappello

9 Douglas Kellner on Herbert Marcuse ■ Douglas Kellner

10 Henry Jenkins on John Fiske ■ Henry Jenkins

11 Amy Petersen Jensen on Bertolt Brecht ■ Amy Petersen Jensen

12 Donna E. Alvermann on Simone de Beauvoir ■ Donna E. Alvermann

13 Jeremiah Dyehouse on John Dewey ■ Jeremiah Dyehouse

14 Renee Hobbs on Jerome Bruner ■ Renee Hobbs

15 Vanessa Domine on Neil Postman ■ Vanessa Domine

16 Peter Gutierrez on Scott McCloud ■ Peter Gutierrez

17 Susan Moeller on Roland Barthes ■ Susan Moeller

Epilogue ■ Renee Hobbs

Contributors

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