Media Education

Il volume intende affrontare, secondo una chiave di lettura pedagogico-didattica, il tema dell’introduzione dei videogiochi nei percorsi formativi, scolastici e non.
Frutto di un lavoro comune degli autori nella riflessione e nella sperimentazione di attività con studenti e insegnanti, il testo propone piste di azione e chiare messe a fuoco sul tema, nella convinzione che i video game non possano essere soltanto gli strumenti per rendere più piacevoli le lezioni, ma siano dei veri e propri oggetti culturali che meritano di essere conosciuti.
La video game education, allora, è esattamente questo: il tentativo – paradossale, ma non troppo – di far conoscere ai ragazzi quei videogiochi che pure usano quotidianamente, cioè di stimolarli a comprenderli più a fondo, a fruirne consapevolmente, e a capire come progettarli e costruirli.

İletişim olgusu, toplumsal bir varlık olan insan için her dönem önemli bir konuma sahip olmuştur. Tarihin ilk dönemlerinden itibaren doğa ile iç içe yaşayan insan beslenme, barınma ve korunma gibi temel ihtiyaçlarını giderirken iletişim kurmaya çabalamıştır. İletişim her dönem insanların hayatlarını biçimlendirmiş, yaşayışlarına yön vermiştir. Toplumsal dönüşümü hızlandıran ve sosyalleşmeyi biçimlendiren iletişim olgusu, medyanın etkisiyle birlikte daha zengin bir yapıya kavuşmuştur. Geleneksel medyadan yeni medyaya dönüşüm sürecinde iletişim teknolojileri etkisini derinden hissettirmiş ve içinde yaşadığımız dönem “medya çağı” olarak ifade edilmeye başlamıştır. İletişim bugün gerek sokakta, gerek evde izlediğimiz televizyonlarda, gerek sanal ortamda ve gerekse de reel hayatımızda vazgeçemediğimiz olgular arasında yer almaktadır. 23 farklı çalışmadan oluşan bu kitap, altı farklı kategoride bulunan bilimsel çalışmaları kapsamaktadır. Bu kategoriler sırasıyla; “Halkla İlişkiler ve Medya”, “Bilişim ve Medya”, “Sinema ve Medya”, “Sanat ve Medya”, “Kültür ve Medya”, “Siyasal İletişim ve Medya”dır.

"WHY do Pacific Islanders want to become journalists? In spite of often tense relationships between governments and the media in the region, and poor pay and working conditions, growing numbers of young Pacific Islanders are choosing a career in journalism -- and usually seeking formal qualifications."

This new book from the Journalism Programme, University of the South Pacific, looks at regional careers in the media. It covers some of the core courses of the programme, such as news values, basic news gathering, news writing and style, media law and ethics, print and online media, radio and television journalism, photojournalism, and political reporting and editorial balance.

In the final section, several chapters raise contemporary issues facing the region -- trauma and conflict reporting, health reporting and HIV/AIDS, the growing importance of the environment, and NGOs as news sources. A chapter, "outside looking in", also examines the challenges for international media covering the region.

The book is edited by USP's journalism coordinator David Robie, a New Zealand journalist with more than three decades of experience in the international and Pacific media. He has gathered a wide range of contributors, both journalists and media educators/trainers with long Pacific experience. This provides a practical companion for the earlier volume, Nius Bilong Pasifik: Mass Media in the Pacific.

This PDF includes Chapters 1 and 2 of the innovative text anthology, designed for use in Media Studies courses, especially large lecture courses like "Media and Society."
-- The book combines movies and texts to introduce students to critical media studies. Accessible and readable, the book is well-liked by students. Topics include the Spectacle, Hyperreality, the Global Village, Social/Mobile Media, Capitalism and Counterculture, Surveillance and Privacy, Ecology and the Anthropocene, Media and Science, Media Futures, the Meme (original version from Dawkins), and many others.
-- Upon adoption, I will provide handouts, syllabus, PPTs.
-- Published by Cognella.  https://titles.cognella.com/media-environments-9781516521104

Disrupting the Gaze is written in three parts. The first chapter Art Intervention and the Tate Gallery investigates contemporary art intervention at the Tate Gallery. It includes artists, art groups and activists: Graham Harwood, Platform, Liberate Tate, IOCOSE, Tamiko Thiel, Mel Evans, Mark McGowan, Mark Wallinger, Damien Hirst and Britart. The second chapter The Power and the Gaze studies the history of the Tate Gallery, its connection with the Millbank Penetentiary and the “Panopticon", Jeremy Bentham’s design and concept for the prison. The third chapter explores different concepts of “the gaze” and includes feminist, societal and media art contexts. Together they form part of a larger study that looks at dissent in the context of contemporary art, technology and social change.
Each artist(s) featured in this chapter delivers his or her own particular unofficial and official mode of art intervention at the Tate Gallery. Whether these interventions concern economic, social or political conditions, they all connect in different ways. Less in their style or genre than as contemporary artistic practitioners exploring their own states of agency in a world where our public interfaces are as much a necessary place of creative engagement, as is the already accepted physical ‘inner’ sanctum of the gallery space. These artists’ and their artworks have become as equally significant (perhaps even more) than, the mainstream art establishment’s franchised celebrities.
In his vindication of those artists hidden away in places where the art establishment’s light rarely shines, Gregory Sholette observes that “when, the excluded are made visible, when they demand visibility, it is always ultimately a matter of politics and rethinking history.”  (Sholette 2011) This draws upon a contemporary art culture and its audiences beyond the mainstream. These artistic discoveries and discourse arise from an independent art culture that is rarely reflected back to us. Instead, we receive more of the same, marketed franchises. The central, mainstream version of contemporary art has found its allies within a global and corporate culture, where business dictates art value. Meanwhile, a spirit of artistic emancipation thrives. It is self styled, self governed and liberated from the restrictive norms that dominate our mediated gaze.

This article explores a wide range of issues linked to the central theme: the use of the smartphone in the period of early formation of candidates intending to join the Salesians of Don Bosco. It begins with a brief presentation of the growth of the Internet and highlights some of its social consequences. It looks back at the founder's attitude to technological change, and examines the Salesian documentation already available on social communication. A mini opinion poll among members of an international group of young religious and priests accustomed to smartphone-use helps to concretize the dilemma, while the Salesian World Coucillors of Communication and Formation are invited to share their views. The article concludes by providing some guidelines for the formation of candidates to Salesian consecrated life in a globally networked society.

College seniors exist in a challenging period where lives previously based on linear course-planning transition into the uncertainty of the young-professional world (Daniels, Stewart, Stupnisky, Perry, & LoVerso, 2011). Academically and personally, upperclassmen must evolve from “check the boxes to complete the exam” to “define the problem and then solve it.” Capstone courses at their best move students from the railroad tracks of a major-sequence flowchart to the roller skates of the post-graduation world, promoting evolution from college to professional life. As teachers, one of the most important skills we can build is the ability to effectively operate in ambiguous circumstances and advance from limited-solution questions to a problem-based model with a range of interpretations of the question itself and potential answers.

The book presents the results of an evaluation of the investment of regional policy in digital technologies in Southern Italy schools in the seven years 2007-2013. The study had three main purposes: to understand how digital technologies made available to schools were used, to estimate the effects of this policy on students’ learning, and to identify the contexts in which digital technologies were best exploited. The research team employed three different techniques to collect data in order to answer these questions: a survey conducted to a large sample of teachers, the visit of 48 schools (randomly selected, but representative for geographical area and type of school), and a statistical analysis of the relationship between increase of technological equipment in schools and pupils learning performances. The results show that on average ICT use in southern Italian school is still a discontinuous activity: only a small share of teachers uses ICT routinely, and several practical and or...

In this paper we articulate an alternative approach to look at video games and learning to become a creator and contributor in the digital culture. Previous discussions have focused mostly on playing games and learning. Here, we discuss game making approaches and their benefits for illuminating game preferences and learning both software design and other academic content. We report on an ongoing ethnographic study that documents youth producing video games in a community design studio. We illustrate how video game making can provide a context for addressing issues of participation, transparency and ethics. Author Keywords

Questo articolo  presenta e commenta una ricerca di Ruben Durante, Paolo Pinotti e Andrea Tesei sugli effetti della tv commerciale italiana degli anni 80 sul pubblico dei DECENNI successivi. L’esposizione dei ragazzi alla tv commerciale ha portato effetti significativi sul loro quoziente intellettuale, sulle loro scelte politiche (tendenza a votare per i politici che sanno incarnare emozioni ed esprimersi in modo semplice e divertente), e sulla loro tendenza ad una minore partecipazione alla vita associativa. L’aspetto a mio modo di vedere scandaloso per la cultura italiana è che la ricerca è stata effettuata nel 2013 (e se ne trova una versione del 2014 nel profilo di Andrea Tesei su academia.edu), pubblicata in inglese nel luglio 2019 sull’American Economic Review e ignorata in Italia.
Personalmente vedo in questa ricerca la conferma di una tendenza regressiva nei media italiani che parte dalla tv berlusconiana degli anni 80 e arriva agli attuali social di Salvini (vedi la “Storia dell’egemonia in Italia” sul mio profilo e altri miei precedenti lavori). Tale tendenza, insieme allo stato deprimente della scuola, allo stato ancor più deplorevole della sinistra, e all’incertezza del futuro economico e sociale, contribuisce al degrado della cittadinanza democratica.
PS: Ho già pubblicato su academia.edu questo articolo col titolo "The political legacy of entertainment tv. Importanti scoperte sul passato recente dei media". Alcuni amici mi hanno consigliato di cambiargli il titolo perché fuorviante.

The digitally marginalised communities are in focus in the EU-funded Rural Wings project 2006-2008. The aim is to identify and analyze the user learning needs in non-connected communities and to meet these needs by providing satellite internet broad band connections, education and tools. This paper reports the findings of the user needs investigation of 31 communities in 10 countries in the initial phase of the project designed and coordinated by Stockholm University, Sweden. Each national coordinator conducted a user needs study in their country using a common framework of questions and guidelines. The sites were selected according to national and regional needs and where satellite provided Internet is believed to be the long term solution. The 31 communities selected can be summarized in a) Mainland/Lowland communities, 10 b) Mainland/Highland communities, 12 c) Island/Lowland communities, 5, and d) Island/Highland communities, 4. The analysis reveals common threads of lack of infrastructure, accessibility and reliability concerning information and communication technology (ICT) implementation and containment in the community. There is a plethora of reasons for wanting more reliable and frequent Internet connections. Reasons range from educational opportunities, language opportunities, governmental inclusion, information/news outlets, and medical and weather initiative capabilities. This study provides in depth macro-summaries of each participating country’s user needs analysis in total. It also includes the actual analysis of each test site based on over 31 sites spanning 10 European nations. In addition, generalizations, comparisons and differences have been composed, to provide a framework for European trends in rural ICT access

• In Slovenia, the concept of media literacy has been integrated into the formal education system, including early childhood education. The Preschool Curriculum sets certain goals to be followed in educating preschool children on media-related topics. Research done in other Member States of the EU points to the conclusion that the actual implementation and delivery of media education is both fragmented and inconsistent as well as dependent on the interests and motivation of individual preschool teachers. They are the ones who, in accordance with their professional capacity and autonomy, include the goals set in the curriculum into an actual learning process in preschools, also determining the timing and manner of this. The aim of this article is to review, compare, and analyse the data from recent research on the media education of preschool children in Slo-venia in order to better understand how preschool teachers in Slovenia assess their capacity to work with media as well as their media literacy levels, which media they use, and how the media education is conducted in the groups of preschool children.

Trabalho apresentado no GT Práticas de educação, preservação e acervo de histórias de vida e memórias. Simpósio Internacional de Comunicação e Cultura: Aproximações com Memória e História Oral, realizado na Universidade São Caetano do Sul, São Caetano do Sul – São Paulo, de 27 a 30 de abril de 2015.

Il volume raccoglie i risultati di un’indagine valutativa sugli investimenti della politica regionale in tecnologie digitali nelle scuole del Sud Italia, nel settennio 2007-2013. L’obiettivo è quello di capire cosa hanno fatto le scuole con le tecnologie di cui si sono dotate, stimare gli effetti che ha avuto questa politica sui livelli di apprendimento e far emergere i contesti in cui le tecnologie sono state meglio utilizzate e sfruttate.

A personal reflection on the identification and use of threshold concepts (TCs) in relation to teaching Scottish Qualifications Authority Higher Media. It draws on ideas from cognitive science and identifies possible candidates as media studies TCs.

Technology supplements to college textbooks, such as self-guided quizzes and exercises available over the Internet, have become commonplace. The current study examined student perceptions regarding the utility of technology supplements that accompanied a public speaking fundamentals textbook. At semester's end, students reported the supplements to be less useful than they had expected. The supplements were perceived to be more useful by females than by males. The supplements were reported to be more ...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the concept of media education. The analysis is first based on some preliminary ideas already presented in Tella (1997c). In addition, this article aims to shed some light on the relationships between different domains of knowledge and disciplines on the one hand, and media education on the other. The intrinsic purpose thus is to create a classification or a general overview that can then be commented upon by all people concerned. This classification is later changed into a rhizomatic overview. One of the main findings in this analysis is the fact that the conceptual domain of media education has widened to include a wide variety of concepts from other disciplines and domains of knowledge. At the same time, a couple of megatrends have come into light, viz. communication and mediation.

Keywords: Media Education; Communication; Mediation; Teacher Education; Virtual Pedagogy; Didactics; Cognitive Education; Cognitive Science; Cognitive Psychology; Learning Psychology; Sociology; Philosophy; Culture; Educational Technology; Information and Communication Society.

Der österreichische Photochemiker und -historiker Josef Maria Eder (1855-1944) verkörpert in mancher Hinsicht die Summe der photographischen Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er wird in "Photographie als Wissenschaft" mit eigenen programmatischen Texten sowie Beiträgen seiner Zeitgenossen vorgestellt, die seine Position als Schulgründer, sein Verhältnis zur Idee der Photographie als Kunst und sein Konzept der Geschichte der Photographie beleuchten. Im Zentrum steht dabei die nach Eders Entwurf 1888 eröffnete "K. k. Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie und Reproductionsverfahren", die ein äußerst breit gefächertes Spektrum von Aus- und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten für Hochschulstudenten wie Lehrlinge, Amateure und Professoren ebenso wie für Angestellte photographischer und druckgraphischer Betriebe bieten sollte. Als weit über Österreich hinaus beachtete Institution von enzyklopädischer Perspektive war sie die Plattform, von der aus Eder Wien um 1900 als Zentrum der wissenschaftlichen Photographie und anderer moderner Bildtechnologien etablierte.

Journalists are not only storyteller but also they are the watchdog of the society for different dimensions. In the era of globalization when everything is changing very fast, the status of all human being is also changing with the same pace, whereas the status of Journalists in India especially in Rajasthan are stagnant and comparatively not standard. The paper tries to find out the socioeconomic status of the Print Journalist of Jaipur. The researcher also wants to study the role of socioeconomic status on their profession through Media habit. The Media habits and Socioeconomic backgrounds of the Journalists are identified by Questionnaire especially designed for this purpose. Data processing was done with the help of statistical tools and some manual calculations. It is recommended through this paper that the actions should be taken by the Print Media agencies to improve the Socioeconomic of the Print Journalists of Jaipur.Government of Rajasthan should take appropriate measures in this direction. And finally the Journalist should be highly skilled to cover their beats and related stories with due compassion and sincerity.

Texto propõe discutir e apresentar possibilidades prático-reflexivas do uso das mídias no campo da Educação Física, sob a perspectiva da Mídia-educação (Física), publicado na coletânea " Diálogo entre Educação Física e Comunicação compartilhando saberes e práticas" (Allyson Carvalho de Araújo et.al., 2015).