Critical Approaches to Media Literacy: A Handbook for Students and Teachers

Art Silverblatt; Jane Ferry; Barbara Finan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765601850 ISBN 13: 9780765601858

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

As the media increases in use as our prime source for information and values, there is a great need to impart methods to critically evaluate all aspects of film, television, the Internet, advertising, radio, and print media. Silverblatt, Ferry, and Finan's innovative text offers various critical methods and approaches to media literacy, including autobiographical, ideological, nonverbal, and mythic approaches. Each chapter presents in detail a full description of the approach followed by an essay applying the approach to an analysis of a media presentation.

Synopsis:

The media is increasingly our source for information and values. This book offers methods for acquiring "media literacy", by critically evaluating aspects of film, television, the Internet, advertising, radio, and the print media. The methods are autobiographical, ideological, nonverbal and mythic.

About the Author:

Art Silverblatt is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.