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The purpose of this study was to investigate what knowledge 16 year old highschool students have when it comes to text- and imageposting on social media and how they act on the basis of their skills and attitudes on text and image publishing. An important aspect of this was to investigate the impact of young people 's identity in relation to text- and image posting on social media as this according to research is a big part of what motivates young people in their everyday practices (Buckingham, 2008). The essay questions was , What is young people’s experience on posting text- and image on social media? How aware are young people at the pros and cons on posting text and images on social media? What are young people's attitudes about text and image posting? And how do young people act on the basis of experience , awareness and attitude? Which role plays identity in their actions? To seek answers to my questions and achieve the aim of the thesis was conducted three semi-structured focusgroup interviews in collaboration with two high schools. The results have been reported, interpreted and analyzed by pattern-seeking.   The theoretical framework used in this paper is the research and theories of primarily media researchers who have distinguished themselves in the Media and Youth research, For example, Ulla Carlsson, David Buckingham, Sonia Livingstone and Kristen Drotner. I have primarily studied books with different themes within the topic of identity, Media literacy, children , media and culture. Through these researchers and their theories I could gather knowledge about young people's media habits and identity processes in relation to media use. Media Literacy during the course of the study proved to be a very important topic and especially the book Children and Youth in The Digital Media Culture, editor Ulla Carlsson, contains a lot of interesting theories and reflections on the subject. Through the various articles in the book I have gained an understanding and knowledge on the topic Media Literacy, a topic that most of the researchers argue is so important, but seems to be forgotten, or even not taken into consideration in schools. This study showed that young people are living a life where the boundary between the physical and the digital world is in principle non-existent but that several of the youngsters lacked guidance and support when it came to things that happened on the internet. Despite the fact that the digital world is as integrated into the physical world in the lives of young people, adults are not present in the young people's life’s on the internet. However, one of the schools in this study had focused on teaching Media Literacy and these young people showed a greater confidence and security in their virtual living. These young people had a clearer strategy and awareness of the risks of social media. The researchers' strong argumentation for educations in Media Literacy in schools teach from the youngsters in this study to be highly relevant arguments, however, Media Literacy seems to be a forgotten subject in schools , a subject that in most schools is’nt taken into consideration. Why? Is it the lack of time or the lack of knowledge about the youngsters or the subject?   Some interesting conclusions could be drawn from the focusgroup interviews in this study and it was that there is a big difference in how knowledge is achieved amoung the students. The girls had knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of text and picture published by particularly bad experiences and had thus learned how best to act on social media and the internet. The boys, however had media and information education in school and experienced social media as a relatively safe place to stay on. This in theory could be due to differences between the sexes when girls are generally more vulnerable in society, but also according to researchers it could have to do with Media Literacy. Media Literacy is currently no compulsory element in the curriculum, but can pose a big difference to young people 's digital lifestyle. Why let go of the children in the digital world when we hold their hands in the physichal?

The purpose of this action research study was to improve the education of Indigenous students enrolled at an inner-city urban alternative high school for adolescent mothers and/or mothers-to-be. Seven adult students agreed to participate in this study, as did the English Language Arts teacher who facilitated the critical literacy classroom activities. The study investigated the impact that critical mathematics and critical literacy activities had on developing students’ critical consciousness (Freire, 2000), which is a key component of transformative learning (Mezirow, 1997). The findings indicate that the cumulative effect of the critical curricular activities enacted during this study led to critical consciousness development in students, and thereby contributed to a more transformative learning experience for them. The findings also indicate that action research was integral to changing the mathematics and English Language Arts classroom practices in this study. / February 2017

Media in the context of education, especially new media like Web 2.0, has attracted the public’s attention for more than a decade now. Trendsetting research and publications have been carried out and published in this field and so it remains a popular topic nowadays. This paper focusses on the descriptions of media-pedagogic activities and attitudes of Chinese teachers in vocational education schools. Therefore, the research methodology and main findings of the empirical study, which involved questionnaires at Chinese vocational schools, will be presented.

Meaning-making in today's digital culture, using digital media, raises the need for enhanced critical thinking and analytical skills. To be literate in digital media, one must know how to use digital tools, but one is also required to develop intellectual, social, and cultural competencies to be able to interpret messages in multimodal texts, which include written text, sound, and images. This research explored the experiences of two foreign students in higher education who participated in a six-week online workshop called "improving your digital-media skills." In the online workshop, the students completed a project-based activity in which each week they worked on one step toward finishing their projects. The weekly curriculum aimed to develop particular skill of digital-media literacy to access, analyze, evaluate, and create digital media materials. Throughout this study, the data was gathered and analyzed to answer two general questions: 1) How does a project-based activity of digital media creation and consumption impact students' critical thinking and analytical skills in the digital culture? 2) How does students' awareness of cultural diversity influence the choices they make in digital media production? Seeking answers to these two questions, the study employed qualitative case study methods including participant-observation, field notes, questionnaires, interviews, and digital media products analysis. The analysis revealed that the workshop had a great impact on the students' critical analysis and evaluation skills than on critical thinking skills. There was also a noticeable increase in the students' critical thinking skills when using digital media out of the academic settings. Both participants were affected by their experience of living abroad, and this factor influenced their thinking and teaching methods. Cultural identities appeared in their thinking and choices in some parts of the workshop. This study was an initial inquiry into the importance of acquiring cultural competencies along with critical digital-media literacy in order to accept the diversity in education and appreciate our differences.

O estudo situa o conceito \'educomunicação\' enquanto área do campo da inter-relação comunicação/educação. Há, para tanto, revisão epistemológica que contempla o tempo histórico da formação do pensamento prevalente na Escola Crítica Latino-americana de Comunicação, com reflexos nas relações de ensino-aprendizagem. Uma investigação, pois, compreendida por fenômenos socio-históricos da comunicação e da educação e centrada no protagonismo de uma audiência que pode ser compreendida tanto como parte das relações dialógicas da comunicação mediada pela tecnologia como presente nas interações, cognitivas, no espaço da educação formal e não-formal. Da condição de receptor de conteúdos e enunciados hegemonicamente produzidos pela mídia e pelas representações de Estado, mercado e Igreja, aqui postas como hegemonia plena, o sujeito social da contemporaneidade apropria-se das linguagens e, mediante uso de plataformas tecnológicas diversas, aceita ou não os processos comunicacionais que integra, com suficiência para alterá-los ao passo em que também é parte (re)produtora de iguais fluxos de informação. Tais fenômenos configuram o habitus no Paradigma Educomunicativo, uma vez que o indivíduo é aqui compreendido como tendo visão crítica nata, sob permanente influência dominadora das forças do Estado, mas com suficiência para romper com os modelos de desenvolvimento vigentes. É desse contexto que surge o questionamento acerca da competência \'educar para os meios\', parte conceitual da educomunicação, considerando que os processos de letramento transcorrem sob a égide das forças dominadoras da hegemonia. A contextualização do habitus no Paradigma Educomunicativo é feita, epistemologicamente, mediante revisão bibliográfica acerca do trajeto histórico de formação do conceito educomunicação. / The study was carried out to situate the concept of \'educommunication\' as an area of the field of the communication/education interrelation. Therefore, there is an epistemological revision that contemplates the historical time of the formation of the prevailing thought in the Latin American Critical School of Communication with reflexes in the teaching-learning relations. Hence, it is an investigation comprehended by socio-historical phenomena of communication and education, and centered in the protagonism of an audience that can be understood both as part of the dialogic relations of communication mediated by technology, and as present in the interactions, cognitions, in the formal and non-formal spaces of education. From the condition of recipient of contents and statements hegemonically produced by the media, and by the representations of State, market, and Church, here understood as full hegemony, the social subject of contemporaneity appropriates himself of languages through the use of different technological platforms, and accepts or not the communicational processes he integrates with sufficiency to change them to the step where he is also a (re)productive part of information flowing. Such phenomena configure the habitus of the Educommunication Paradigm, since the individual is here comprehended as having a critical natural vision under permanent dominating influence of the forces of the State, but with sufficiency to break the current models of development. From this context arises the questioning about the competence for the teaching of a broadly educational environment; a conceptual part of educommunication, considering that the processes of literacy proceed under the aegis of the dominant powers of hegemony. The contextualization of the habitus in the Educommunicative Paradigm is done, epistemologically, through a literature review about the historical development of the educommunication concept.

In a society consumed by ever-increasing media and technology, it is more important now than ever that public schools provide their students with the skills and tools necessary to analyze, interpret, deconstruct, and construct popular media images and messages. Consequently, it is the role of educators to engage with popular media in the classroom, not simply for the sake of student motivation, but for the purpose of supporting students in meaningful literacy practices. This study analyzes classroom dialogue and students’ written responses throughout a semester-long English elective course entitled, “Hip Hop Literature and Culture,” in a public high school in New York. This course was designed as a means to engage students in critical media literacy (CML) practices. Through this qualitative case study, the researcher sought to better understand how students are understanding and responding to the popular media that surrounds them, and how academic engagement with such media within a class context impacts their understandings of self, youth culture, popular culture and the social structures that ultimately impact their lives.

Esta tese apresenta um mapeamento da experiência de oficinas e cursos livres audiovisuais gratuitos no Brasil, entre 1990 e 2009, a partir dos desafios, práticas e trajetórias pedagógicas compartilhadas pelas entidades que os promovem. Buscou-se estabelecer as principais intencionalidades, sistematizar meios comuns e apresentar meios extraordinários utilizados para promovê-las, bem como refletir sobre os principais resultados obtidos, na tentativa de identificar como e quando encontram o melhor de seu potencial. Para tanto realizamos e aplicamos 198 questionários e entrevistas, com profissionais oriundos de 70 entidades de todo o país, cujos resultados serviram de ponto de partida para as análises subsequentes. Os dados coletados e análises realizadas indicaram que os profissionais de tais entidades revisitam e em alguma medida recriam princípios filosóficos, teorias e práticas de campos correlatos da educação, especialmente do subcampo que identificamos como o das educações alternativas e democráticas. As entidades vêm alcançando excelentes resultados sob parâmetros diversos, o que sugere que tais princípios filosóficos, teorias e práticas integradas à promoção de aprendizados como o audiovisual têm potencial para promover a superação de desafios crônicos do âmbito das escolas formais e inspirar o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas. / The present work introduces a mapping of the experience of cost-free media workshops and courses in Brazil, between 1990 and 2009, based on the shared educational challenges, practices and histories of the entities that provide them. The aim was to establish major intents, systemize common strategies and present extraordinary strategies that are used to provide them, as well as reflect on the major results obtained, with view to identifying how and when they achieve their best potential. For that purpose we have designed and employed 198 questionnaires and interviews with professionals from 70 entities around the country, the result of which served as an offset for subsequent analyses. The collected data and the analyses carried out have shown that the professionals from such entities revisit and to some extent recreate theories, practices and philosophical principles from correlated fields of education, especially from the subfield we have identified as pertaining to alternative and democratic education. These entities have been achieving excellent results by many standards, which suggests that such theories, practices and philosophical principles integrated to the promotion of literacies, such as media literacy have a potential to encourage the overcoming of chronic challenges faced by formal schools and to bring about the development of public policies.

The concept of literacy has expanded to include understanding and effective utilization of information, media, and technology. The Children's Internet Protection Act requires school districts to teach proper online use and behavior. The lack of a technology requirement in a rural, public school district in Northeastern Pennsylvania that meets the needs of 21st century learners and the conditions of the Children's Internet Protection Act was the rationale for the development of this project study. The study's conceptual framework stemmed from theories related to new literacies, multimodality, computer education practices, and millennial learners. The research questions examined educators' perceptions of topics and skills to include in a curricular framework that addressed the lack of a comprehensive technology requirement to improve 21st century digital literacy skills for all students. A qualitative case study design was selected and data from 40 open ended questionnaires, one 5-member focus group discussion, and two 6-member focus group discussions were open coded and thematically analyzed. Emergent themes relating to a digital literacy course framework included information access skills and the application of technology. Findings were validated through member checking and triangulated with 62 existing curricular documents. The project for this study consisted of a curricular framework for a 90 day 21st century digital literacy high school course that can be used by any school district to enhance the preparation of students for life after high school. Such use of the findings and culminating project may positively affect social change through a modern definition of literacy thus contributing towards the development of a positive and prepared 21st century citizenry.

Repeated exposure to media images that portray women as sex objects can have negative long-term effects on self-esteem beginning in preadolescence. Negative effects include decreased feelings of competence, increased focus on appearance, increased body dissatisfaction, and limited achievement in domains not related to appearance. There is a gap in the literature examining if media literacy training can mitigate the negative effects of exposure to sexualized media content. Festinger's social comparison theory and Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development provided the framework for this study. A quasi-experimental pre-post-test design was used to examine the interaction of media literacy training and time of measurement, on self-esteem and body-satisfaction in preadolescent girls. Archival data from 73 5th grade girls were obtained from a media literacy group with the addition of data from 14 5th grade girls collected to form a non-media literacy comparison group to control for confounding variables and bias. Two separate 2-way, mixed-model, factorial ANOVAs were conducted. The analyses failed to show a significant interaction between literacy group and time of measurement on self-esteem and/or body-satisfaction. However, the potential effectiveness of media literacy skills in neutralizing the negative impact of sexualized media imagery on preadolescent girls' self-esteem and body-satisfaction was observed in the between-group analyses. Positive social change may occur when society continues to identify and incorporate positive self-esteem influences and media literacy skills into the lives of preadolescent girls as to mitigate negative long-term effects of media sexualization.