Media Literacy Research Index
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Authors
- Gross, M.
- Latham, D.
Year
The peritextual literacy framework (PLF) is a tool for accessing, evaluating, and comprehending the content of media using elements that frame the body of a work and mediate its content for the user. Paratextual elements are the focus of research in classification, bibliometrics, reader’s advisory work, and in studies...
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Authors
- Dufva, T.
- Dufva, M.
Year
Digital technology has become embedded into our daily lives. Code is at the heart of this technology. The way code is perceived influences the way our everyday interaction with digital technologies is perceived: is it an objective exchange of ones and zeros, or a value- laden power struggle between...
Article
Authors
- Diargarten, A. K.
- Möckel, T.
- Nieding, G.
- Ohler, P.
Year
Within the extensive literature on the role of educational media in children's learning and the factors influencing that learning, the possible impact of media literacy remains unexamined. The present study examines the influence of media literacy on learning from television and hypermedia environments. In a sample of 150 children...
Article
Authors
- Abdi, N.
- Bigelow, M
- King, K.
- Vanek, J.
Year
Research indicates that immigrant and refugee students benefit from use of their native languages in education. Nevertheless, what this means in practice has infrequently been examined by researchers, and teachers often struggle to find ways to use their refugee students’ native languages as resources that encourage the development of...
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Authors
- Anstey, K. P.
- Jocelyn, O. T.
- Goudge, J.
- Gómez-Olivé, F. X.
- Griffiths, F.
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Keywords
Mobile phones have the potential to improve access to healthcare information and services in low-resourced settings. This study investigated the use of mobile phones among patients with chronic diseases, pregnant women, and health workers to enhance primary healthcare in rural South Africa. Qualitative research was undertaken in Mpumalanga in...
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- Alexander, K. P.
- DePalma, M-J.
- Ringer, J. M.
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This essay considers the question of transfer in relation to processes of remediation. In particular, we explore the interrelationships between transfer and new media in multiliteracy center contexts. Drawing on a case study of an undergraduate student named Sophie, we offer a multidimensional approach called adaptive remediation that helps...
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Authors
- Aarsand, P.
- Melander, H.
Year
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This article explores media literacy practices in children׳s everyday lives and some of the ways in which young children appropriate basic media literacy skills through guided participation in situated activities. Building on an ethnomethodological perspective, the analyses are based on video recordings documenting the activities in which four target...
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Authors
Bier, Melinda
Year
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Background: Susceptibility to future smoking, positive beliefs about smoking, and perceptions of antismoking norms are all factors that are associated with future smoking. In previous research, smoking media literacy (SML) has been associated with these variables, even when controlling for other known risk factors for smoking. However, these studies were...
There is a wide range in the educational qualities and overall quality of interactive storybook apps for tablet computers (ebooks). Minimally, ebooks for young children present illustrations on a screen, accompanied by an oral reading of the text. Today's ebooks can also include animation, zooming in and out, musical scores,...
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Authors
Yamada-Rice, D.
Year
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This research focuses on young children’s experiences of the visual mode embedded in new multimodal literacy practices. An enquiry was undertaken into the role of visual and digital images in a group of 11 four-year-olds’ out-of-school lives. The children photographed their use of a range of primarily visual-based media at...
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Authors
- Wolfe, S.
- Flewitt, R.
Year
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This paper discusses concepts of learning through ‘collaborative multimodal dialogue’. It draws on an ESRC-funded study (RES-000-22-2451) investigating 3- and 4-year-old children’s encounters with literacy as they engage with a range of printed and digital technologies at home and in a nursery. The study goes beyond analysis of spoken language,...
Article
Authors
- Thorpe, K.
- Hansen, J.
- Danby, S.
- Zaki, F. M.
- Grant, S.
- Houen, S.
- Davidson, C.
- Given, L. M.
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Keywords
Australian preschool teachers' use of Web-searching in their classroom practice was examined (N = 131). Availability of Internet-enabled digital technology and the contribution of teacher demographic characteristics, comfort with digital technologies and beliefs about their use were assessed. Internet-enabled technologies were available in 53% (n = 69) of classrooms. Within...
Article
Authors
- Steckel, B.
- Shinas, V. H.
- Van Vaerenewyck, L.
Year
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The purpose of this article is to inform teachers about the ways technology can be integrated to add value to literacy instruction. Artistic technology-integrated literacy and disciplinary instruction in preK through grade 4 classrooms is described through the stories of five teachers who were identified as both strong teachers of...
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Authors
- Prinsloo, M.
- Rowsell, J.
Year
Journal
The focus on electronic media as placed resources in this Introduction to this special issue draws attention to the varied and specific ways that media resources are taken hold of in divergent social settings. We argue that communicative resources of all kinds, in their uses and functions, are shaped by...
Article
Authors
- Mills, J. E.
- Romeijn-Stout, E.
- Campbell, C.
- Koester, A.
Year
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With new technologies, the youth services landscape is changing. In 2012, two children's librarians in Colorado designed and implemented a research study in which they used iPads to create digital storytimes for preschoolers. They carefully chose apps and designed hybrid experiences that included both traditional and digital pieces. They then...
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Authors
- Mills, K. A.
- Exley, B.
Year
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Theorists of multiliteracies, social semiotics, and the New Literacy Studies have drawn attention to the potential changing nature of writing and literacy in the context of networked communications. This article reports findings from a design-based research project in Year 4 classrooms (students aged 8.5-10 years) in a low socioeconomic status...
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Authors
Mills, K.
Year
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Young children shift meanings across multiple modes long before they have mastered formal writing skills. In a digital age, children are socialised into a wide range of new digital media conventions in the home, at school, and in community based settings. This article draws on longitudinal classroom research with a...
Watching, creating and achieving: Creative technologies as a conduit for learning in the early years
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Authors
- McDonald, S.
- Howell, J.
Year
This paper describes the use of robotics in an Early Years classroom as a tool to aid the development of technological skills in a creative environment rich with literacy and numeracy opportunities. The pilot project described illustrates how a three-phase process can result in: (1) the development of emergent literacy...
Article
Authors
- Leinonen, J.
- Sintonen, S.
Year
Media education and media cultures should be considered a part of early childhood education, because media has an important role in children's lives. With a socio-cultural learning approach, children are considered active participants and competent actors with the media. In this paper, media education has been approached as a case...
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Authors
- Lankshear, C.
- Knobel, M.
Year
Against the background of Michael Kamil and Sam Intrator’s landmark reviews of research about new technologies and literacy development, this article maps recent research concerned specifically with the 0–8 years age group. Drawing on databases of research conducted in North America, Britain and Australasia, it affirms that the early childhood...
Media Literacy Research Index
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Mediataitoviikko
Julia Alajärvi, projektipäällikkö
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti
Mediakasvatus- ja kuvaohjelmayksikkö
julia.alajarvi@kavi.fi
Puh: 0295 338 009 tai 050 434 4229
Medialiteracyweek.eu
Tommi Tossavainen, suunnittelija
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti
Mediakasvatus- ja kuvaohjelmayksikkö
tommi.tossavainen@kavi.fi
Puh: 0295 338 010 tai 045 310 1412
Media Literacy Research
Lauri Palsa, projektipäällikkö
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti
Mediakasvatus- ja kuvaohjelmayksikkö
lauri.palsa@kavi.fi
Puh: 0295 338 015 tai 050 411 6212
