What's Our Position? A Critical Media Literacy Study of Popular Culture Websites with Eighth-Grade Special Education Students

Autor/inn/en	Kesler, Ted; Tinio, Pablo P. L.; Nolan, Brian T.
Titel	What's Our Position? A Critical Media Literacy Study of Popular Culture Websites with Eighth-Grade Special Education Students
Quelle	In: Reading & Writing Quarterly, 32 (2016) 1, S.1-26 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1057-3569
DOI	10.1080/10573569.2013.857976
Schlagwörter	Critical Literacy; Media Literacy; Popular Culture; Web Sites; Grade 8; Special Education; Action Research; Urban Schools; Public Schools; Critical Reading; Protocol Analysis; Multimedia Materials; Computer Uses in Education; Visual Aids; Design; Inferences; Multiple Literacies; Middle School Students; Semi Structured Interviews; Mixed Methods Research; Participatory Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritisches Lesen; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Popkultur; Web-Design; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Projektforschung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Computernutzung; Anschauungsmaterial; Inference; Inferenz; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Forschungstätigkeit
Abstract	This article reports on an action research project with 9 eighth-grade special education students in a self-contained classroom in an urban public school. The 1st author, in collaboration with the classroom teacher (3rd author), taught the students a critical media literacy framework to explore popular culture websites. Students learned to analyze these sites for issues of authorship; design; intended audience; ideology; and political, social, and profit motive agendas. Based in theories from new literacies, multiliteracies, multimodal literacy, and critical media literacy, the article addresses the following questions: What understandings as critical readers of popular culture websites did the students exhibit? How did these understandings contribute to their development as 21st-century literate people? Through the use of screen capture software and think-aloud protocol, we were able to recreate each student's reading process. Students then created alternative media productions using Glogster. We analyzed each student's glog using the grammar of visual design. Analysis revealed students' critical media literacy understandings. We present 3 themes in the findings: inferential thinking, a dialectic across multiple literacies, and multimodal expression. We present 2 telling cases to articulate our analysis and the dimensions of each theme. The article concludes with implications for future research, policy, and pedagogy, particularly in critical media literacy with special education populations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01