Product Description: The average 8-18 year-old spends over 10 hours a day consuming media. Unfortunately their minds are often ''shut off'' as they watch TV, surf the web, or listen to music. Help your students ''tune in'' so they can begin to analyze messages and understand techniques used to influence them...read more

Product Description: Examining political campaigns and political advertising through the analytical lens of media literacy, this well-illustrated and timely handbook guides readers through the maze of blandishments and spin that is the hallmark of the modern political campaign...read more

Product Description: Renee Hobbs provides the first empirical evidence of the impact of media literacy on the academic achievement of adolescents. This pioneering book chronicles the practice of high school teachers who prepared their students to critically analyze all aspects of contemporary media culture...read more

Product Description: Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.Speaking the Lower Frequencies demonstrates how students can be critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they derive from it...read more

Product Description: The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education.

This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his twenty years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Lesley L. Johnson’s research has been enthusiastically received both in the United States and abroad as a unique discourse focused on the application of reader-response theory, intermodal expressive therapy models, and technology within contemporary media education paradigms, as they influence educational change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This title aims to provide insights, practical suggestions, and clear-cut strategies for integrating media across the K-12 curriculum. This contribution to teaching and curriculum design uses students' own media experiences or media vignettes from students' lives to enter teaching and learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)