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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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Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age
Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyze, resist, critique―and create.
More..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,

Measuring the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies of Children and Teens
This paper reviews the various methodological approaches used to measure the digital and media literacy competencies of learners.
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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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Media Literacy Foundations
The concept of media literacy has been circulating in the United States and Europe since the beginning of the 20th century; but it continues to morph and change as a result of changes in education, technology, media, popular culture, and society.
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