Think Global, Act Local: Expanding the Agenda for Media Literacy Education in the United States

Domine, Vanessa

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Title

Think Global, Act Local: Expanding the Agenda for Media Literacy Education in the United States

Author(s)

Domine, Vanessa

Issue Date

2011

Keyword(s)

Information literacy

Abstract

The phrase “think global, act local” is used to frame the macro efforts of information literacy worldwide alongside the localized, grassroots efforts of media literacy education in the United States where there exists a complex and contradictory relationship among government, technology industry, and educational practices. This article marries the global (macro) push for information literacy with the localized (micro) efforts at media literacy education in the United States and identifies emergent tensions and challenges associated with the production of information literate citizens within an educational system that is disconnected from the highly mediated lives of students outside of school. As a microcosm of this struggle, the article chronicles the emergence of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE).

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31874

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2011.0038

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Copyright 2011 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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