Media Literacy Skills: Interpreting Tragedy
Hobbs, R.2001January.
Social Education
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Research and Scholarship
New Works
Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages
Hobbs, R.2001January.
Reading Online
Teachers
can improve students’ critical reading and viewing skills through
interactive learning activities that make use of a wide range of
nonfiction media, including film, television, print, and the Internet.
Four classroom learning experiences designed to facilitate careful
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities
2001January.
Voices from the Middle
Rather than viewing popular culture as an enemy to the
work we do in schools, Renee Hobbs challenges educators to find
creative ways to build connections between kids' worlds and the work we
do in classrooms. She shares a sequence of classroom engagements that
Teaching the Humanities in a Media Age
Hobbs, R.1999February.
Educational Leadership
An innovative program helps teachers discover how to integrate media literacy concepts into high school humanities instruction.
Instructional Practices in Media Literacy Education and Their Impact on Students' Learning
Hobbs, R. & Frost, R.1999January.
New Jersey Journal of Communication
People From Many Walks of Life Enrich The Media Literacy Movement
Hobbs, R.1999
The Journal of Media Literacy
The Simpsons Meet Mark Twain: Analyzing Popular Media Texts in the Classroom
Hobbs, R. 1998January.
English Journal
Teaching Media Literacy
Hobbs, R. 1996January.
Children and the media (Reprint of Media Studies Journal article, 1994).
The Billerica Initiative Brings Media Literacy to Middle School
Hobbs, R. 1994January.
Community Media Review
Popular
Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age
Renee Hobbs2020,New book published by W.W. Norton
Propaganda is inescapable. It’s everywhere. Students need to analyze, resist, critique―and create.
More..Teaching Truth, Lies, and Accuracy in the Digital Age
Yonty Friesem2019,Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
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,
Renee Hobbs, Christian Seyferth-Zapf & Silke Grafe 2018,Journal of Media Literacy Education
Measuring the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies of Children and Teens
Renee Hobbs2017,Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts
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
Hobbs, R. 2020,February.Reading Research Quarterly
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
Renee Hobbs2019,International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy(pp. 851 - 870)..
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.
More..Resistance and Learning in Media & Gender Literacy Classes
Elizaveta Friesem2018,Media Education Studies and Research