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From foundations in critical thinking skills to practical tools and real-life perspectives, this book empowers young adult readers to be independent media users.
The Media and Me is a joint production of The Censored Press and Triangle Square Books for Young Readers.
During the recent presidential election, “media literacy” became a buzzword that signified the threat media manipulation posed to democratic processes. Meanwhile, statistical research has shown that 8 to 18 year-olds pack more than eleven hours with some form of media into each day by “media multitasking.” Young people are not only eager and interested to learn about and discuss the realities of media ownership, production, and distribution, they also deserve to understand differential power structures in how media influences our culture.
The Media and Me provides readers with the tools and perspectives to be empowered and autonomous media users. The book explores critical inquiry skills to help young people form a multidimensional comprehension of what they read and watch, opportunities to see others like them making change, and insight into their own identity projects. By covering topics like storytelling, building arguments and recognizing fallacies, surveillance and digital gatekeeping, advertising and consumerism, and global social problems through a critical media literacy lens, this book will help students evolve from passive consumers of media to engaged critics and creators.
Publisher : Triangle Square
Publication date : December 27, 2022
Language : English
Print length : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1644211963
ISBN-13 : 978-1644211960
Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
Reading age : 13 – 17 years
Dimensions : 5.49 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Grade level : 8 – 12
Best Sellers Rank: #167,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Teen & Young Adult Internet Books #8 in Teen & Young Adult Sociology #248 in Censorship & Politics
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