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Critical Inquiry in (and About) Media Environments: Examining an Asset-Based Digital Literacy Curriculum
- Author
- Brady Nash
- Year
- 2024
- Publisher
- Journal of Literacy Research, SAGE
- DOI/Link
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- Abstract
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Scholars have long recognized that reading in digital spaces requires unique skills,
strategies, and competencies in comparison to those needed for reading printed
text. In recent years, the ubiquity of social media and algorithmically targeted content
has radically changed the nature of online reading and meaning making. Technological
changes have occurred simultaneously with radically altered sociocultural and socio
political contexts. To account for an altered technological and sociocultural landscape,
new approaches to teaching digital reading and critical media literacy are needed.
Addressing these concerns, this case study detailed a digital reading curriculum
designed to be responsive to both the contemporary digital media environment
and to students’ out-of-school digital literacy practices and contexts. The curriculum
was collaboratively designed by five middle-school language arts teachers who partic
ipated in a semester-long professional learning group focused on digital reading.
Drawing upon sociocultural, asset-based, and culturally relevant philosophies of edu
cation, these five teachers designed a unique digital reading curriculum. This study
examined the nature of this curriculum. The findings detailed four aspects of the
teachers’ unit: (1) digital reading instruction situated within students’ literate lives;
(2) critical instruction regarding systemic features of the internet such as algorithms
and clickbait; (3) lessons in which students interrogate socially situated meaning mak
ing; and (4) lessons focused on the role of emotions while reading online. The findings
have implications for future digital reading and media literacy curricula intended to be
responsive to students’ funds of knowledge, ever-changing literacy technologies, and
new, emergent ways of reading and practicing literacy on the internet. - Keywords
- Digital Literacy, Critical Media Literacy
- Tags
- Media representation
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B3: Representation and Media Power
- Has Part
- C03-U10: Representation in Media and Information Systems
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review
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