Engaging Urban Youth in Critical Media Literacy

Engaging Urban Youth in Critical Media Literacy

Hyesun Cho, Randy Gomabon
ISBN13: 9781522552017|ISBN10: 1522552014|EISBN13: 9781522552024
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch050
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Cho, Hyesun, and Randy Gomabon. "Engaging Urban Youth in Critical Media Literacy." Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1100-1116. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch050

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Cho, H. & Gomabon, R. (2018). Engaging Urban Youth in Critical Media Literacy. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1100-1116). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch050

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Cho, Hyesun, and Randy Gomabon. "Engaging Urban Youth in Critical Media Literacy." In Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1100-1116. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5201-7.ch050

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Abstract

This chapter describes how urban youth engaged in critical media literacy in the high school classroom by creating public service announcement (PSA) videos. The study delineates the process in which critical media literacy was implemented into diverse urban high school classrooms in Hawaii over a period of three years. The process included (1) acquiring technological and linguistic skills; (2) critically analyzing media texts; and (3) producing media on social issues. The data were collected from students' reflection journals, interviews with students and teachers, students' electronic portfolios, and participant observations by the researchers/teachers. Students expressed their voice toward positive social actions by producing PSAs on a range of social issues, such as poverty and discrimination. Building on multiliteracies and critical media literacy, this chapter argues for the importance of critical media literacy pedagogy that is deliberate to make curricular space for students' reflections and examinations of social issues.

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