A new museum, an online archive and a film season offer some great resources for researching – and teaching about – youth culture. Taken together, they raise some interesting questions about who represents youth culture, and how we define it.
Category Archives: media education
Media bans and ‘media literacy’: a dissenting view
The ban on ‘digital childhood’
What’s the rationale behind Australia’s ban on under-16s using social media platforms, and how effective is it likely to be? An interview with Professor Michael Dezuanni. Continue reading
Teaching Adolescence: the antidote to ‘toxic masculinity’?
The Netflix series Adolescence is being used in schools to teach about the problems of ‘toxic masculinity’ and the dangers of the ‘manosphere’. What are the potential problems of this approach? Continue reading
‘I can see it in your face’: the perils of age verification online
As the UK’s Online Safety Act begins to be implemented, some well-established critical questions are arising once again. Will we ever be able to prevent children accessing material that we deem to be harmful or objectionable? And if we can’t, what then?
Media literacy: a case of policy failure
A new report from the House of Lords provides interesting reading on the current state of media literacy in the UK.
Art and youth work in post-war Britain: ‘Journey into a Fog’
A forgotten best-seller of the mid-1950s sheds light on youth culture and the potential of creative youth work. Continue reading
Should we ban mobile phones in schools?
Reviewing arguments for and against – and proposing a media education approach.
Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Media Education Approach
What are the implications of artificial intelligence for media educators, and for the media themselves?
The trouble with ‘information literacy’
Media literacy is increasingly coupled with a particular version of ‘information literacy’. I argue that this is not only conceptually incoherent but also educationally problematic.
David Buckingham 