| Series | Routledge research in media literacy and education
Routledge research in media literacy and education. ^A1450918 |
| Contents |
Failures of mainstream media literacy : a case for an emancipatory media literacy framework -- Media literacy of oppressed identities : an intersectional feminist approach for the whole society -- Media literacy of terrorism and populism : the symbiotic relationship between media and oppression -- Media literacy of colonialism, war, and genocide : the clash of narratives and the crushing of worlds -- Media literacy of pandemics and infodemics : saving society from the plague of fake news, mis/disinformation, and conspiracy theories -- Toward an alliance of 21st-century intersectional literacies -- Epilogue: Marginal issues, false victimhood, and performative solidarity. |
| Abstract |
"This book offers an alternative approach to developing media literacy pedagogies for people in postcolonial countries and marginalized communities, especially in the Global South, tackling unexplored issues such as media literacy of war, terrorism, pandemics, infodemics, populism, colonialism, genocide, and intersectional feminism. With an emphasis on developing critical and emotive consciousness - or unveiling the oppressor within - the book provides a unique perspective that fits the needs of people at the margins and challenges mainstream media literacy approaches that are mainly designed for the center and the Global North. The book offers a framework for designing curricula at and with the margins through an emancipatory media literacy approach. This approach directs energy toward resistance and praxis, focuses on local priorities of the margins, contextualizes issues within a postcolonial historical moment, and concentrates on fighting oppression structures and social injustice. This book will be an important resource for scholars, educators and students of media literacy, communication, cultural studies, critical pedagogy, postcolonialism, Arab studies, and human rights"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Jad Melki, Ph.D., is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and the Director of the Institute of Media Research and Training at the Lebanese American University. He is also a visiting faculty at the Salzburg Academy, an affiliated researcher with ICMPA at the University of Maryland, and a visiting professor at Bournemouth University. In 2015, Melki won the UNESCO-UNAoC International Media and Information Literacy Award for advancing media literacy education in the Arab region through founding the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut. His research is at the intersection of media literacy, journalism, war, feminism, and health communication. He won the 2020 Shoman Arab Researchers Award for his impactful research on media in the Arab World. Previously, Melki was Founding Director of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and was affiliated with the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, and the Jordan Media Institute. As a former journalist, Melki was part of a team that won a Webby Award and a National Press Club Award for covering the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Melki, Jad. Media literacy of the oppressed. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 9780367334888 |
| LCCN | 2024027186 |
| ISBN | 9780429322167 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 042932216X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781040157480 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1040157556 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781040157558 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1040157483 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9780429322167 |
| Stock number | 9780429322167 Taylor & Francis |
