Foreword xiUlla Carlsson About the Editors xix Notes on Contributors xxi Introduction: Media Education Research in a Rapidly Changing Media Environment 1Stuart R. Poyntz, Divina Frau-Meigs, Michael Hoechsmann, Sirkku Kotilainen, and Manisha Pathak-Shelat Part I Global Youth Cultures 17Stuart R. Poyntz 1 Micro-Celebrity Communities, and Media Education: Understanding Fan Practices on YouTube and Wattpad 19Michael Dezuanni 2 Memes Production as Parodic Activism: Inclusion and Exclusion in Young People’s Digital Participation in Latin America 33Rosalía Winocur and Inés Dussel 3 Youth, ICTs, and “Violent Extremism”: A Media Education Perspective 47Sanjay Asthana 4 Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Media Literacy: Doing Media Education Research on the Margins 61Annamária Neag 5 The Change in Young Australians’ Television Viewing Behavior and What It Means for the Future of Local Content 75Marc C-Scott 6 “We Don’t Do That Here” and “Isme Tera Ghata, Mera Kuch Nahi Jata”: Young People’s Meme Cultures in India 85Devina Sarwatay 7 Toward Hybridized and Glocalized Youth Identities in Africa: Revisiting Old Concerns and Reimagining New Possibilities for Media Education 97Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam 8 Social Media Influences on Youth with Disabilities in the Global South 105Tafadzwa Rugoho Part II Pedagogies and Practices 113Manisha Pathak‐Shelat 9 Toward Transmedia Learning: Practices, Approaches, and Tools 115Maria-Jose Masanet, Gabriella Taddeo, and Simona Tirocchi 10 Youth Media Education in the Age of Algorithm-Driven Social Media 131Sirkku Kotilainen, Jussi Okkonen, Jaakko Vuorio, and Karoliina Leisti 11 Integrating Nonviolent Communication in Pedagogies of Media Literacy Education 141Vedabhyas Kundu 12 Different Countries, Similar Issues: Media Binds or Blinds? 155Melda N. Yildiz 13 Teaching Gender and Sexuality in a Critical Media Literacy Framework: Curriculum, Pedagogical Interventions, and Autoethnographic Reflections 167Ruchi Jaggi 14 Competencies About the News for Elementary School Children 175Ioli Campos 15 Looking for Digital (Alter) Natives: Why Teachers’ Beliefs About Children Matter in Media Education 183Pekka Mertala and Saara Salomaa 16 Understanding Media Regulation in the Public Interest 189Robert Beveridge 17 “Doing Journalism Isn’t Lying” – Literacies and Fake News in an Experience with Children in the Invisibility Triad 195Lumárya Souza de Sousa and Thaiane Oliveira 18 Teaching Media Literacy Through Scientific Controversies 201José Azevedo 19 Teaching Interactive Narratives: Developing User Engagement Through Theory-Empowered Practice 207Willemien Sanders Part III Histories 215Michael Hoechsmann 20 Media Education History: The Early Years 217Keval J. Kumar 21 Media Education 3.0? How Big Data, Algorithms, and AI Redefine Media Education 229Grzegorz Ptaszek 22 Media Education in Latin America: The Paradigm of Educommunication 241Cláudia Lago, Claudemir E. Viana, Maria Cristina Palma Mungioli, and Marciel Consani 23 A Brief History of Media Education in Chile 253Pablo Andrada and Cristian Cabalin 24 Nordic Perspectives on the History and Future of Media Education 259Reijo Kupiainen and Daniel Schofield 25 Media Education in Israel – Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde 267Arielle Friedman, Ornat Turin, and Orly Melamed 26 Media Education in the Czech Republic: Vision and Disconnection 275Lucie Römer 27 Media Education in India: Policy and Praxis in Old and New Communication Media 281C.S.H.N. Murthy Part IV Institutions and Policy Developments 289Divina Frau‐Meigs 28 Defining Media Education Policies: Building Blocks, Scope, and Characteristics 291Normand Landry and Christiane Caneva 29 The Development of Media Literacy in Chinese Societies: From Grassroots Efforts to Institutional Support 309Alice Y.L. Lee 30 Digital Privacy Policy Literacy: A Framework for Canadian Youth 327Leslie Regan Shade and Sharly Chan 31 Searching for Common Ground: Multiliteracy and Curricular Consistency in the Finnish Education System 339Lauri Palsa 32 Taking Media Literacy Education in Armenia to the Next Level: From Civil Society Movement to Post-Revolution Government Efforts 347Lusine Grigoryan 33 Media Education Challenges in a Digital Society: The Case of Chile 355Rayén Condeza Dall’Orso, Myrna Gálvez Johnson, Nadia Herrada Hidalgo, and Francisco J. Fernandez Medina 34 Landscape and Terrain of Digital Literacy Policy and Practice: Canada in the Twenty-First Century 363Helen DeWaard and Michael Hoechsmann 35 Media Education Policy Developments in Times of “Fake News”: The Case of the Czech Republic 373Markéta Supa, Lucie Štástna, and Jan Jirak Part V Critical Citizenship and Futures 381Sirkku Kotilainen 36 Expanding Ethics to the Environment with Ecomedia Literacy 383Antonio Lopez 37 Engaging the World: Social Media Literacy for Transcultural Citizenship 399Manisha Pathak-Shelat and Kiran Vinod Bhatia 38 Data and Privacy Literacy: The Role of the School in Educating Children in a Datafied Society 413Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova, and Rishita Nandagiri 39 Media Education and Dynamic Research: Known Unknowns and Rich Intersections 427Julian McDougall and Isabella Rega 40 Radical Media Education Practices from Social Movement Media: Lessons from Teaching and Learning in Lebanon 441Gretchen King 41 Activating Student Voice and Choice Globally: Reframing Negative Narratives in Ghana 449Ed Madison 42 Advocacy as Media Education: The Educational Activities of Digital Rights Advocates 459Efrat Daskal 43 Cyberbullying, Media Education, and Agents of Socialization in Montenegro 467Ida Cortoni and Jelena Perović Index 475

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