Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy

<p><i>Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy</i> brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.</p><p>This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students teacher candidates and to students scholars and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.</p><p>This book will be a key resource for scholars students policymakers community members and activists interested in education politics youth studies critical theory intersectionality social justice and peace studies activism critical media literacy communication or media studies.</p>