Pop Culture and Power : : Teaching Media Literacy for Social Justice / / Deirdre M. Kelly, Dawn H. Currie.

Literacy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading "skills." By contrast, Pop Culture and Power treats literacy as a dynamic practice, shaped by its social and cultural context. It develops a fram...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 11 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w figures, 6 b&w tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Teaching for Social Justice: Pop Culture in the Classroom
  • 2 Agency and Power as Media Engagement
  • 3 Pop Culture and Power: Teaching as Research
  • 4 The Monopoly Project: Meaning Making through Board Game Production
  • 5 The Hunger Games: Using Popular Film to Learn about Power
  • 6 Celebrity Marketing: Gender Performances in Popular Music
  • 7 Are You Being Hailed? Advertising as a Venue for Critical Media Literacy
  • 8 Agency Revisited: Pop Culture in a Participatory Classroom
  • 9 Power Revisited: Harnessing Media Engagement to Social Change
  • APPENDICES
  • Appendix A: Course Syllabus for CSL Seminar
  • Appendix B: Writing and Other Homework Activities – CSL Seminar 2012
  • Appendix C: Ethics and Example of Parent/ Guardian Informed Consent Letter
  • Appendix D: Details from the Hunger Games Project Lesson Plan
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index