Education for Democracy 2.0

Michael Hoechsmann is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Education Programs in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University-Orillia, Canada, and a Research Associate of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT).Gina Thésée is Full Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and is also Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT). Paul R. Carr is a Full Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada, and is also the Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education (DCMÉT).

“This book offers bold, hopeful, and very timely accounts of grassroots critical media literacy practices in the service of building a participatory democracy worthy of the name in a postmodern world.” – Colin Lankshear, author of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning“A diversity of local projects from around the world, critically presented by authors who explore the convergence of formal, non-formal and informal education spheres with ubiquitous and lifelong education. Media education is represented here as inevitably linked to social justice, environmental education and other burning issues of our time.” – Alfonso Gutiérrez Martín, University of Valladolid (Segovia)

• Foreword: Lasting Lessons Learned from the “Fake News” Crisis MIL as the 1st Curriculum Divina Frau-MeigsAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Struggle over Meaning in a World in CrisisMichael Hoechsmann, Gina Thésée and Paul R. CarrPART 1: Engaging the Community1 Ubuntu: Innovation and Decolonization in Media and Communication StudiesColin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede2 Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a MakerspaceRobyn M. Tierney3 Video Production and Global Civic Education: The School as Sandbox for Democracy 2.0María Rodríguez-Romero4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth: Shades of Democracy 2.0 from FinlandMari Pienimäki and Sirkku Kotilainen5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in ZimbabweTafadzwa Rugoho6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education: A Powerful Amalgam for Today’s Radical DemocracySandra L. Cuervo Sanchez and Tania Goitandia MoorePART 2: Framing Media Literacy7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust: Critical Thinking and Critical Consciousness and the Biopolitics of the Emerging Media CitizenMichael Forsman8 Buying in to Participatory Culture?: Critical Media Literacy and Social MediaCarlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ignacio Haya Salmón and Adelina Calvo Salvador9 Gaming Education: Learning about Climate Change through Digital Game-Based TeachingTania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo and José Gutiérrez-Pérez10 Not without Us: A Feminist Pedagogy for Media Education 2.0Aquilina Fueyo11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL: Or Can Social Media Foster Environmental Learning and Activism?Ellen Field12 The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social ConsequencesMaria Leena KorpijaakkoPART 3: Transforming the Classroom13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy through Game-MakingMilena Droumeva and Jennifer Jenson14 Post-Truth Explorers: Information Literacy vs. Fake NewsMaría Luisa Zorrilla Abascal and Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi15 Nine Key Insights: For a Robust and Holistic Critical News Media LiteracyEmil Marmol16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century PedagogyRobert C. Williams17 Learning Democracy by Doing WikiversityAnna Renfors and Juha Suoranta18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker: Philosophical Engagement with New Media in the ClassroomLaura D’OlimpioPostscript: Bubbles and Baubles: Seeking Democracy 2.0 in a Post-Factual WorldRoberto Aparici and David García-MarínIndex