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Media Literacy in Action

Questioning the Media

Renee Hobbs

The blurring of entertainment, information, and persuasion is reshaping work, life, and citizenship. As a result, our relationship to media has never been so important nor so complex. By asking critical questions about what they watch, listen to, read, and use, students can be better prepared to be responsible communicators who can use a variety of formats and genres for self-expression and advocacy.

Covering a wide range of topics including the rise of news partisanship, algorithmic personalization and social media, stereotypes and media addiction, advertising and media economics, and media influence on personal and social identity, Renee Hobbs helps students develop the lifelong learning competencies and habits of mind needed to navigate an increasingly complex media environment.

Rooted in the best practices of media literacy pedagogy, Media Literacy in Action brings an interdisciplinary approach to media studies that engages students with the following features:

• full-color layout

• engaging questions to stimulate thoughtful dialogue and reflection

• contemporary media examples designed to cultivate intellectual curiosity

• suggested activities for advancing students’ confidence in oral, written, and multimedia expression

• access to videos and multimedia resources at www.medialiteracyaction.com

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 408 • Trim: 8¼ x 10½
978-1-5381-1527-5 • Hardback • January 2021 • $144.00 • (£111.00)
978-1-5381-1528-2 • Paperback • January 2021 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
978-1-5381-1529-9 • eBook • January 2021 • $84.50 • (£65.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy, Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills, Social Science / Methodology

Renee Hobbs is an internationally recognized authority on digital and media literacy education and a professor of communication studies at the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media, where she co-directs the URI Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy. She is the author of 10 books including Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age and Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. At the Media Education Lab, she brings together educators and researchers to advance the quality of digital and media literacy education through scholarship and community service.

Part I: Understanding Media

Chapter 1. What Is Media Literacy?

Chapter 2. Why Are Media Important?

Chapter 3. How Do Search Engines Work?

Chapter 4. How Do People Get the News?

Chapter 5. What Is the Difference between Advertising, Public Relations, and Propaganda?

Chapter 6. Why Are We Attracted to Characters and Stories?

Part II: Judgments about Taste, Quality, and Trust

Chapter 7. Why Do People Prefer Different Kinds of Music, Movies, and TV Shows?

Chapter 8. Who Decides What Makes Media “Good”?

Chapter 9. How Do People Decide Who and What to Trust?

Part III: Media Economics

Chapter 10. How Do Media Companies Make Money?

Chapter 11. Are Social Media Free?

Part IV: Understanding Media

Chapter 12. Why Do People Worry about Stereotypes?

Chapter 13. Is My Brother Addicted to Media?

Chapter 14. How Do People Become Media Literate?

Glossary

References

Index

A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.
— Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication


Hobbs’ approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.
— Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University


Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.
— Natasha Casey, Blackburn College


In this book, Renee Hobbs does an important service to the field of media literacy by providing a timely and much needed textbook with a deep overview of what it means to be media literate. The reader can practice through the chapters how to access information, analyze and evaluate media messages, create message, reflect on your own consumption of media and act thoughtfully as media producers. The exercises and examples help instructors and students to learn through an inquiry process as they form their own opinion and master the craft of conveying media messages using various techniques.


— Yonty Friesem, Columbia College Chicago


This textbook, aimed at high school students and college undergraduates, develops key concepts about media literacy and includes discussion questions to promote critical thinking related to media consumption. Each chapter begins with "Learning Outcomes." Also included are background information about particular aspects of media literacy and "Critical Questions" encouraging reader reflection. Historical material in each chapter provides highlights about an "Intellectual Grandparent" who represents groundbreaking foundational ideas on, e.g., gaming, music, digital citizenship, privacy, economics, and politics. “Create to Learn” activities, again in each chapter, ask students to apply ideas presented in the book, which comprises four parts. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers.


— Choice Reviews


2/24/22, Choice: This book was featured in a roundup of “Top 75 Community College Titles.”

Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-february-2022/



FOR STUDENTS
Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
FOR PROFESSORS
Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com

Media Literacy in Action

Questioning the Media

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • The blurring of entertainment, information, and persuasion is reshaping work, life, and citizenship. As a result, our relationship to media has never been so important nor so complex. By asking critical questions about what they watch, listen to, read, and use, students can be better prepared to be responsible communicators who can use a variety of formats and genres for self-expression and advocacy.

    Covering a wide range of topics including the rise of news partisanship, algorithmic personalization and social media, stereotypes and media addiction, advertising and media economics, and media influence on personal and social identity, Renee Hobbs helps students develop the lifelong learning competencies and habits of mind needed to navigate an increasingly complex media environment.

    Rooted in the best practices of media literacy pedagogy, Media Literacy in Action brings an interdisciplinary approach to media studies that engages students with the following features:

    • full-color layout

    • engaging questions to stimulate thoughtful dialogue and reflection

    • contemporary media examples designed to cultivate intellectual curiosity

    • suggested activities for advancing students’ confidence in oral, written, and multimedia expression

    • access to videos and multimedia resources at www.medialiteracyaction.com

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 408 • Trim: 8¼ x 10½
    978-1-5381-1527-5 • Hardback • January 2021 • $144.00 • (£111.00)
    978-1-5381-1528-2 • Paperback • January 2021 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
    978-1-5381-1529-9 • eBook • January 2021 • $84.50 • (£65.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy, Language Arts & Disciplines / Reading Skills, Social Science / Methodology
Author
Author
  • Renee Hobbs is an internationally recognized authority on digital and media literacy education and a professor of communication studies at the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communication and Media, where she co-directs the URI Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy. She is the author of 10 books including Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age and Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. At the Media Education Lab, she brings together educators and researchers to advance the quality of digital and media literacy education through scholarship and community service.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part I: Understanding Media

    Chapter 1. What Is Media Literacy?

    Chapter 2. Why Are Media Important?

    Chapter 3. How Do Search Engines Work?

    Chapter 4. How Do People Get the News?

    Chapter 5. What Is the Difference between Advertising, Public Relations, and Propaganda?

    Chapter 6. Why Are We Attracted to Characters and Stories?

    Part II: Judgments about Taste, Quality, and Trust

    Chapter 7. Why Do People Prefer Different Kinds of Music, Movies, and TV Shows?

    Chapter 8. Who Decides What Makes Media “Good”?

    Chapter 9. How Do People Decide Who and What to Trust?

    Part III: Media Economics

    Chapter 10. How Do Media Companies Make Money?

    Chapter 11. Are Social Media Free?

    Part IV: Understanding Media

    Chapter 12. Why Do People Worry about Stereotypes?

    Chapter 13. Is My Brother Addicted to Media?

    Chapter 14. How Do People Become Media Literate?

    Glossary

    References

    Index

Reviews
Reviews
  • A sorely needed book, and there is no better person to write it in terms of depth in the field.
    — Ralph Beliveau, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication


    Hobbs’ approach not only allows students to broaden and deepen their knowledge of media literacy concepts but also to gain facility with hands-on tools and techniques for learning how to create, reflect, and act upon their own experiences with media and technology.
    — Colin Rhinesmith, Simmons University


    Hobbs addresses a greatly underserved area within communications/media studies with a desperately needed undergraduate text combining empowerment and protectionist traditions that draws from the two main US media literacy traditions.
    — Natasha Casey, Blackburn College


    In this book, Renee Hobbs does an important service to the field of media literacy by providing a timely and much needed textbook with a deep overview of what it means to be media literate. The reader can practice through the chapters how to access information, analyze and evaluate media messages, create message, reflect on your own consumption of media and act thoughtfully as media producers. The exercises and examples help instructors and students to learn through an inquiry process as they form their own opinion and master the craft of conveying media messages using various techniques.


    — Yonty Friesem, Columbia College Chicago


    This textbook, aimed at high school students and college undergraduates, develops key concepts about media literacy and includes discussion questions to promote critical thinking related to media consumption. Each chapter begins with "Learning Outcomes." Also included are background information about particular aspects of media literacy and "Critical Questions" encouraging reader reflection. Historical material in each chapter provides highlights about an "Intellectual Grandparent" who represents groundbreaking foundational ideas on, e.g., gaming, music, digital citizenship, privacy, economics, and politics. “Create to Learn” activities, again in each chapter, ask students to apply ideas presented in the book, which comprises four parts. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates. General readers.


    — Choice Reviews


Features
Features
  • 2/24/22, Choice: This book was featured in a roundup of “Top 75 Community College Titles.”

    Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/the-top-75-community-college-titles-february-2022/



Resources
Resources
  • FOR STUDENTS
    Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
    FOR PROFESSORS
    Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com

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