Steve Gennaro – författare

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens, it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news, this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students, teacher candidates, and to students, scholars, and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, policymakers, community members and activists interested in education, politics, youth studies, critical theory, intersectionality, social justice and peace studies, activism, critical media literacy, communication, or media studies.

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens, it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news, this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students, teacher candidates, and to students, scholars, and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, policymakers, community members and activists interested in education, politics, youth studies, critical theory, intersectionality, social justice and peace studies, activism, critical media literacy, communication, or media studies.

Playology: A Media-Critical Exploration of Digital Technologies and Identity in the Global Village offers a sharp, timely exploration of how digital technologies and global media reshape the ways we think, communicate, and understand ourselves. As multinational corporations like Google increasingly mediate our access to information, identity, and civic life, this book examines the profound consequences of living in what it calls the “Googleburg Galaxy.”Blending cultural critique with accessible theory, the book traces how our practices of reading, writing, and meaning making have been transformed by digital systems that both empower and constrain. It argues that play—reimagined as a form of critical media literacy—is essential for navigating these complexities. Through play, individuals can question dominant narratives, expose hidden power structures, and reclaim agency over their digital lives.By unpacking the ideologies embedded in contemporary media and the subtle ways they shape citizenship, knowledge, and authenticity, Playology: A Media-Critical Exploration of Digital Technologies and Identity in the Global Village invites readers to engage more consciously with the technologies that define modern existence. It is a call to resist passive consumption, embrace creative inquiry, and cultivate the critical literacies necessary for a more open, pluralistic, and humane digital future.