Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education

Antonio López

Informasi Umum

Kode

21.21.1978

Klasifikasi

302.23 - Media of Communication, Mass Media

Jenis

Buku - Elektronik (E-Book)

Subjek

Media

No. Rak

Dilihat

177 kali

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Abstraksi

This book is primarily for university media teachers and K–12 media literacy educators who are unfamiliar with how media and ecology connect, and is meant to raise awareness about pertinent ideas and literature that can enrich teaching about media and the environment. The book can be used in different ways. For university media teachers, I have in mind the kind of community you find in the Teaching Media Facebook group or readers of Teaching Media Quarterly. Many of the chapters are written as stand-alone introductions that can be assigned in university courses as supplementary to a regular media studies or production course so that students can have a basic introduction to the main themes of media and the environment and ecological ethics. For media literacy educators, this book serves as an action plan for promoting and designing ecomedia projects and curriculum and also for promoting ecomedia literacy within the global media literacy discussion. It can also be read as a map for gathering more materials and for thinking about curriculum design. I acknowledge that what’s presented here is incomplete with gaps, unfinished inquiry, and some overly generalized summaries of deeper debates. There is always more to write and research, such as more attention to critical animal studies, queer ecocriticism, ecological economics, and artistic practices. But at a certain point, one has to stop and finish. My hope is to get the conversation going and to continue an open discussion beyond the pages of this book.