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Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America

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This edited collection is not a response to the 2016 United States Presidential Election so much as it is a response to the issues highlighted through that single event and since when incredibly sm...
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  • 08 February 2018
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This edited collection is not a response to the 2016 United States Presidential Election so much as it is a response to the issues highlighted through that single event and since when incredibly smart, sophisticated, and intelligent members of our society were confused by misinformation campaigns. While media literacy and critical media literacy are ideas with long histories in formal education, including K-12 students and higher education, the need for increased attention to these issues has never reached a flash point like the present. The essays collected here are confrontations of post-truth, fake news, mainstream media, and traditional approaches to formal schooling. But there are no simple answers or quick fixes. Critical media literacy, we argue here, may well be the only thing between a free people and their freedom.
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Price: $131.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Critical Media Literacies Series
Publication Date: 08 February 2018
ISBN: 9789004365377
Format: Hardcover
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"This collection presents a variety of ways of thinking about media literacy education and entry points for teachers who might recognize the urgency of a citizenry engaged in the practices of critical literacy and have decided that now is the time to make it a priority in classrooms. [...] Taken together, these chapters suggest a form of education that is not only academic and rigorous in the traditional sense, but that students can use walls outside schoolhouse in their lives now and in the future". Brady Nash, in Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 15 (2), 2019.
Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D. (2007), Kansas State University, is Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Arkansas. He has published widely in the field of education, highlighted by The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project: Culture, Place, and Authenticity (co-author) and Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music.

Professor of Education at Furman University since 2002, Dr. P. L. Thomas taught English for 18 years in rural South Carolina. He holds a B.A. in Secondary Education (1983), M. Ed. in Secondary Education (1985), and Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction (1998), all from the University of South Carolina.