How do the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of images affect learning?
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The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross-Cultural Understanding
his paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7 th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding.

Everyone Learns From Everyone: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Professional Development in Digital Literacy

Lessons in copyright activism: K-12 education and the DMCA 1201 exemption rulemaking process.


Teaching About Propaganda: An Examination of the Historical Roots of Media Literacy


The past, present and future of media literacy education

The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement
The Creativity of Imitation in Remake Videos
The production of remake videos may enhance media literacy competencies by offering a means for young media makers to develop creative skills through strategic imitation.
Digital Authorship: Issues and Implications for Educators
In this essay, the term digital authorship in examined in relation to literacy learning. We reflect on two critical issues that are sometimes overlooked features of digital literacy in relation to the pedagogical practices of digital authorship.
When teens create the news: Examining the impact of PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs
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Teaching Truth, Lies, and Accuracy in the Digital Age
This pedagogy article describes a semester-long undergraduate course designed to deconstruct information disorder in the post-truth era by looking at economics, ideology, and power relations.
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Using Virtual Exchange to Advance Media Literacy Competencies through Analysis of Contemporary Propaganda,


How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age
Research with a sample of 400 American high school students explores the relationship between participation in a media literacy program, academic ability, frequency of Internet use, information-gathering motives, news and advertising analysis skills, and the intention toward civic engagement.
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The Blurring of Art, Journalism and Advocacy
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Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization: Expanding Literacy Research and Practice
This commentary considers the rise of algorithmic personalization and the power of propaganda as it is shifting our understanding of the landscape of 21st-century literacy research and practice.
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Civic media as a cultural dialogue: Arab and Jewish teachers & documentary filmmaking in Israel

Design Features of a Professional Development Program in Digital Literacy
To advance the digital literacy competencies of educators, create opportunities for them to reflect on their motivations for using digital media, make collaborative inquiry a substantive component of the hands- on learning experience, and create opportunities to put teachers and learners (not mac
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