Tween and teen girls enjoy using and participating with the wide variety of media forms available as a means to express their creativity. Issues of body image, sexuality and celebrity identification are especially significant for this age group as agents of socialization.
Topics
Girls and Media Culture
Events
Spring into Digital Literacy with the Media Education Lab!
Spring into Digital Literacy with the Media Education Lab!
Teaching Resources
Support reflection on why digital and media literacy matters for learning and teaching
Now it's easier than ever to engage students and support learning through creating videos, animations, infographics and more
Explore the crowdsourced gallery of over 2,500 examples from around the world
Help students learn to ask questions about what they read, see, watch and listen to.
Books for young learners: It's never to early to be smart about media!
Understand how copyright and fair use supports digital learning
Guided inquiry & viewing of Adam Ruins the Internet helps learners judge the pros and cons of digital life and reflect on the role of media regulation.
Research and Scholarship
Tuzel, S. & Hobbs, R
2017
Communicar
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/English.pdf
The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross-Cultural Understanding
Journal
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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.
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Renee Hobbs
2017
International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%202017%20Approaches%20to%20Teacher%20PD%20in%20Media%20Literacy.pdf
Approaches to teacher professional development in digital media literacy education
Journal
1
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Renee Hobbs & Julie Coiro
2016
May
Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs_et_al-2016-Journal_of_Adolescent_%26_Adult_Literacy%2520%281%29_0.pdf
Everyone Learns From Everyone: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Professional Development in Digital Literacy
Journal
1
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Renee Hobbs
2011
March
Knowledge Quest
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%20Empowering%20Learners.pdf
Empowering learners with digital and media literacy.
Journal
1
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Renee Hobbs and Lourdes Smith
2018
Primer: Massachusetts Reading Association
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Digital%20Authorship%20Primer%20Hobbs%20and%20Smith%202018.pdf
Digital Authorship: Issues and Implications for Educators
Journal
0
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.
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Renee Hobbs
2017
Educational Leadership
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Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World
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Renee Hobbs & Silke Grafe
2015
First Monday
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/YouTube%20pranking%20across%20cultures%20%7C%20Hobbs%20%7C%20First%20Monday.pdf
YouTube Pranking Across Cultures
Journal
0
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Renee Hobbs, Nuala Cabral, Aggie Ebrahimi, Jiwon Yoon & Rawia Al-Humaidan
2011
June
Action in Teacher Education
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/1_9_2018_Field-Base.pdf
Field-Based Teacher Education in Elementary Media Literacy as a Means to Promote Global Understanding
Journal
0
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Hobbs, R. & RobbGrieco, M.
2012
November
Journal of Children and Media
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2520%26%2520RobbGrieco%2C%2520Active%2520Reasoning%2520as%2520a%2520Precursor%2520to%2520ML%25202012_0.pdf
African-American Children's Active Reasoning about Media Texts as a Precursor to Media Literacy in the United States
Journal
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Spiller, K and Hobbs, R.
2010
October
Paper presented at the Reimagining Girlhood conference, SUNY Cortland
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Fashions%2520Fat%2520Girls%2520-%2520Relational%2520Aggression%2520in%2520Online%2520Communities_0.pdf
Talking About Fashion's Fat Girls: Relational Aggression in Online Communities
Journal
Fat actresses and models have become part of the contemporary media scene and young
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Hobbs, R. and Rowe, J.
2008
Digital literacy: Tools and methodologies for an information society
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Media%2520Literacy%2520Creative%2520Remixing%2520and%2520Digital%2520learning_0.pdf
Creative Remixing and Digital Learning: Developing an Online Media Literacy Tool for Girls
Journal
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Hobbs, R., Broder, S., Pope, H. & Rowe, J.
2006
January
Health Education Research
https://mediaeducationlab.com/sites/default/files/Hobbs%2C%2520Broder%2C%2520Pope%2C%2520Rowe%2520HER%25202006_1.pdf
How Adolescent Girls Interpret Weight-Loss Advertising
Journal
While they demonstrate some ability to critically analyze the more obvious forms of deceptive weight-loss advertising, many girls do not recognize how advertising evokes emotional responses or how visual and narrative techniques are used to increase identification in weight-loss advertising.
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