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Designing equitable media literacy interventions for critical youth agency
- Author
- Bobbie Foster, Paul Mihailidis, Patrick R. Johnson, Shannon Burth, Melissa Tully, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Emily Riewestahl
- Year
- 2024
- Publisher
- Global Studies of Childhood, SAGE
- Abstract
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In recent years, young people engaged in political discourse and civic action online. U.S.-based
social movements centered on equity issues, such as Black Lives Matter, Dreamers, and March
for Our Lives, engaged young people in shaping and publicizing the goals of these movements
through digital platforms. Increasingly in communities at the margins, young Americans need
digital and media literacy skills to supplement contentious education restrictions within the
United States, as with many state bills curtailing the teaching of LGBTQIA+ histories and critical race theory. With these considerations in mind, our team conducted a national study of impactful
media literacy in the United States. The study included an extensive literature review, interviews
with key stakeholders, and a national survey of educators within the United States. Aimed at
understanding the practices in formal and informal learning spaces, the research process inspired
the creation of a field guide focused on offering resources for equity-focused media literacy
practices that can support educators where professional structures could not, a core finding from
our study on impactful media literacy. This paper shares the process for creating the Field Guide for
Equitable Media Literacy Practices, developed and published as a form of public-facing scholarship
to encourage all media literacy practitioners to undergo a transformative learning process. The
field guide offers a series of approaches to equitable media literacy practices centered on equity
and inclusion. While the research is U.S.-based, we believe the practices suggested within the
field guide apply globally, especially as we see an increase in youth movements that impact beyond geographic and cultural boundaries. - Keywords
- Civic Engagement
- Tags
- Online engagement
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B2: Digital Civic Engagement
- Has Part
- C03-U05: Youth Civic Engagement in Digital Spaces
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review