Schmoll, K (2021) A local lens on global media literacy: Teaching media and the Arab world. The Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13 (3). pp. 62-74. ISSN 2167-8715
Abstract
The globalization and transnationalization of media use have facilitated access to voices from the Arab world. Students and teachers in Western higher education can make use of these voices within and outside the classroom to enhance students’ knowledge of the region and challenge Eurocentric imaginations of the ‘Other’. Yet to ensure students engage with these Arab sources in a meaningful way, media literacy is key. Drawing on and challenging a framework of global critical media literacy, this article argues that media literacy is grounded in time and space, meaning an effective teaching of global media literacy skills supposes an awareness of local media and power systems as well as communication cultures, and willingness to scrutinize one’s own Eurocentric positionalities. In this endeavor, this article proposes to teach global media literacy the local way, here, pertaining to the Arab world through three distinct media case studies: influencers; women’s activism; war and conflict.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Author(s). This is an open access, peer-reviewed article published by Bepress and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. JMLE is the official journal of NAMLE. |
Keywords: | Arab media, Middle East, modernity, feminism, higher education. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2022 12:20 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2022 12:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Rhode Island |
Identification Number: | 10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-3-5 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184471 |
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