The Media Education Lab advocates for programs that help to enable all 700 million American K-12 students with the opportunity to gain critical thinking and communication skills about mass media, popular culture and digital media. We inspire young adults to make important contributions to the ongoing development of the media literacy community.
Topics
Media Literacy Advocacy
Events
Recommend, read, repeat. What more could you ask for in a digital book club?
“Multimedia,” you say? You got it.
Teaching Resources
Available for purchase, the media literacy smartphone helps students learn to ask questions about what they read, see, watch and listen to.
Examine and evaluate contemporary propaganda with lesson plans exploring definitions of propaganda, virality, sponsored content and more
It's never to early to be smart about media!
Understand how copyright and fair use supports digital learning
"Create to Learn" by using free or low-cost digital tools for making podcasts, blogs, videos, gifs, infographics and more
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.
Undergraduate and graduate students benefit from exploring the multidisciplinary history of media literacy
Research and Scholarship
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Hobbs, R. & Smith, L. ..(2018,May).Digital Authorship: Issues and Implications for Educators Primer 46(2), 7 - 17,.
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Hobbs, R (Ed)..(2018,).The Routledge Companion to Media Education, Copyright and Fair Use Routledge,New York
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Hobbs, R. ..(2018,).Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda Lesson Plans .
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Hobbs, R..(2017,September).Teach the Conspiracies. Knowledge Quest 46(1),16 - 24.
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Hobbs, R., Ranieri, M., Markus, S., Fortuna, C., Zamora, M. and Coiro, J...(2017,June).Digital Literacy in Higher Education: A Report Providence RI: Media Education Lab..
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Tuzel, S. & Hobbs, R..(2017,April).The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross-Cultural Understanding Communicar 25(51),63 - 72.
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Hobbs, R...(2017,November).Teaching and Learning in a Post-Truth World. Educational Leadership,75(3), 26 - 31.
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Hobbs, R..(2017,).Measuring the Digital and Media Literacy Competencies of Children and Teens In Fran C. Blumberg and Patricia J. Brooks (Eds.), Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts (pp. 253 – 274). London: Academic Press.,.
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Hobbs, Renee..(2016,June).Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative Temple University Press,Philadelphia
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Hobbs, R...(2016,December).Literacy International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. New York: Wiley.,.
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Hobbs, R. ..(2016,).Capitalists, consumers and communicators: How schools approach civic education. In E. Gordon and P. Mihailidis (Eds), Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (pp. 355- 370). Cambridge: MIT Press. ,.
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Moore, D.C., Donnelly, K. & Hobbs, R...(2014,July).Media and Information Literacy Integration at Mark Day School Media Education Lab.,.
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Hobbs, R. and Moore, David Cooper..(2014,December).Cineykyd: Exploring the Origins of Youth Production Journal of Media Literacy Education,24 - 34.
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RobbGrieco, M. & Hobbs, R. ..(2013,July).A Field Guide to Media Literacy Education in the United States .
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Hobbs, R., Donnelly, K., Friesem, J. & Moen, M...(2013,November).Learning to engage: how positive attitudes about the news, media literacy, and video production contribute t Educational Media International,.
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Hobbs, R. & Moore, D.C. ..(2013,).Discovering Media Literacy: Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School Corwin/Sage,Thousand Oaks, CA
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Hobbs, R...(2013,).Improvization and Strategic Risk Taking in Informal Learning with Digital Media Literacy Learning, Media and Technology 38,182 - 197.
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Friesem, J., Greene, K., Provorova, L., Tierney, T. & Hobbs, R...(2012,September).First Star URI RAM Academy Kingston, RI: Media Education Lab.,.
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Hobbs, R. ..(2011,September).The State of Media Literacy: A Response to Potter Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media,419 - 430.
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Hobbs, R...(2011,September).It's All in the Family: Keynote Address to the International Association for Visual Literacy .