A critical media education approach: using the concept of representation to teach about social media.
Category Archives: Media Studies
Teaching social media 2: media language
A critical media education approach: using the concept of media language to teach about social media.
Teaching social media 1: production
A critical media education approach: using the concept of production (a.k.a. institutions or industry) to teach about social media.
Teaching social media: a critical media education approach
How should educators respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by social media? Why we need to look beyond educational technology, and develop a critical media education approach.
The strangulation of Media Studies
With only a couple of specifications awaiting final approval, the government’s reform of the examination system in England and Wales has now almost concluded. So where do the reforms leave Media Studies?
Can we still teach about media bias in the post-truth age?
In the wake of the Brexit referendum campaign, the victory of Donald Trump, and the attacks on the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, many have argued that we are entering a ‘post-truth’ era. In this context, is bias still a useful and meaningful concept in media literacy education? And if so, how should we teach it?
Self, self, self: representing the self in the age of social media
How should we understand the rise of the ‘selfie’? Is this just a manifestation of mass narcissism, or do these new forms of self-representation provide other social and cultural possibilities?
