Critical Literacy: Using Media to Engage Youth In Inquiry, Production, Reflection, And Change

Over the past ten years, youth media has emerged in the United States as a powerful movement of practitioners and youth dedicated to using media to support young people's creative expression and vocal presence in the public sphere... Why is such growth important? Every day, young people experience the world around them through media—movies, comic books, video games, iPods, blogs, television, cell phones, even billboards...One strategy for helping young people deconstruct the multiple "texts" that inform their lives is media literacy, commonly defined as the ability to read, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of forms.

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