Practical Media Literacy: An essential guide to the critical thinking skills for our digital world, 2nd Edition
- Length: 250 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: 2015-07-18
- ISBN-10: 151189136X
- ISBN-13: 9781511891363
- Sales Rank: #2188546 (See Top 100 Books)
Media literacy educator Nick Pernisco’s new book, Practical Media Literacy: An essential guide to the critical thinking skills for our digital world, is the perfect introduction to media literacy for young adults, teachers, and parents. Pernisco has distilled his years of teaching experience into a practical guide for learning the most crucial skills needed to be a digital citizen in the 21st century. This is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how to interpret the enormous amounts of information we are exposed to everyday, both in traditional media and online.
The book includes an introduction to media and media literacy, explaining what media is, how it affects us, and why we should pay close attention to it. The reader is then presented with a framework that can be used to analyze any type of media. Once the basics are thoroughly explained, the book focuses on individual types of media and specific methods for analyzing each type. Readers will learn to analyze and think critically about movies, television, music, social media, advertising, news, video games, and more. Each section contains relevant exercises to help readers better understand the impact each type of media has on their lives. These exercises can be completed alone, or may be used as lesson plans in a classroom setting.
This 2nd edition builds on the strengths of the previous version.
- A stronger focus on the learner. The book explains media literacy from its most basic elements to some sophisticated topics of interest for all ages. This makes the book a perfect textbook for any K-12 classroom.
- Expanded information on more types of media. Movies, TV, advertising, photography, social media, music, news, and video games each get their own chapter, each illustrating details about how to analyze each type of media and numerous activities that may be used as lesson plans.
This book is perfect as a textbook for a course on media literacy, an introductory course about media, any class that uses media (tv, movies, music, the web) to convey information, for at home use by parents, and for curious minds trying to better understand their world.
Los Angeles, CA / Seattle, WAContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements Preface Acknowledgements Introduction to the First Edition Introduction to the Second Edition Chapter 1: What Is Media? Media Are a Business Media Are a Business Chapter 2: What Is Media Literacy? Chapter 3: A Practical Approach to Learning Media Literacy Part 2 – Types of Media Chapter 4 – The Internet – The Web & Social Media Appendix: Internet-related Learning ActivitiesACTIVITY: Website Authorship (Personal Site) Chapter 5 – Motion Media – TV, Movies, & Streaming Chapter 6 – Music Appendix: Music-related Learning ActivitiesACTIVITY: Genre Chapter 7 – News Media Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest.&... Appendix: News-related Learning Activities Chapter 8 – Video Games Appendix: Video Game-related Learning Activities Chapter 9 – Radio and Other Audio-Based Media Appendix: Radio-based Learning Activities Chapter 10 – Photography Appendix: Photography-related Learning Activities Chapter 11 – Advertising Appendix: Advertising-based Learning Activities Conclusion Appendix B: Myths about Teaching Media Literacy in the Classroom Index Author Biography
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