MEDIA LITERACIES: A Critical Introduction -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 What is Media Literacy? -- Media Literacy 2.000 -- Natives and Aliens -- Media Education has a History to Draw On -- Media Education in the Twenty-First Century -- 2 Children's Media Lives -- Researching Young People in Mediated Environments -- Getting Older Faster, Staying Younger Longer -- Life Inside a Media Wonderland -- Inequities and Parents' Worries about Media Use -- Media Concentration and the Big Four -- Creating Cradle-to-Grave Consumers -- Conclusion -- 3 Media as Public Pedagogy -- Media as Threat -- Media as a Form of Public Pedagogy -- New Learning Horizons -- Debating Dangerous Screens -- The Merits of Television for Education -- Children's Learning Television -- SIDEBAR: An Inconvenient Truth as public pedagogy -- Public Service Announcements, Entertainment Education, and Culture Jamming -- Bricolage -- SIDEBAR: Pre-teen girls and popular music -- 4 Media Literacy 101 -- A Demand for New Heuristics -- Cultural Life -- Production -- SIDEBAR: Moral makeovers: Reality television and the good citizen -- Text -- Audience -- SIDEBAR: Children's media encounters in contemporary India: Leisure and learning -- Cultural Life -- SIDEBAR: The Simpsons: Not such a dumb show after all! -- 5 Media Production and Youth Agency -- What Creative Work Adds to Media Education: Production as Praxis -- SIDEBAR: Youth cultural production and creative economies -- SIDEBAR: Assessing learning from practical media production at an introductory level: The role of writing -- What does Production Mean? -- How is Production a Form of Agency? -- SIDEBAR: Youth as knowledge producers in community-based video in the age of AIDS -- SIDEBAR: Youth Radio -- 6 Literacies: New and Digital -- What does it Mean to be 'Literate' Today? -- Expanded Literacies.

New Literacies and New Ways of Thinking and Doing -- Digital Literacies and 'Top-Down' Approaches -- The Role of Learning Environments in Relation to Digital Literacies -- 7 Media Literacy 2.0: Contemporary Media Practices and Expanded Literacies -- Media Literacy 2.0: The Seven Cs of Contemporary Youth Media Practices -- SIDEBAR: Learning in Second Life -- SIDEBAR: Immersive advertising and children's game spaces -- SIDEBAR: Rethinking media literacy through video game play -- SIDEBAR: Understanding remix and digital mashup -- SIDEBAR: YAHAnet: Youth, the Arts, HIV and AIDS network -- Conclusion -- 8 Critical Citizenship and Media Literacy Futures -- Thinking, Judging, and Critical Citizenship -- Last Words -- References -- Index.

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