Dynamic Media Environments

- Broadens the scope of media literacy understanding and practice by expanding current diverse media literacy approaches and placing them in a broader media ecological framework.
- Addresses current social issues and challenges such as populism and emerging right-wing nationalist movements in the U.S., UK., Europe, Turkey, Brazil, and elsewhere, as well as discourses and actions around the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement, and climate change locally and worldwide.
- Presents the Dynamic Media Environment Model, an accessible framework for understanding a variety of media environments, and includes media literacy examples, global case studies, and exercises throughout to aid student comprehension and also highlight how media environments can be used as a means to enact social change.
- Offers accompanying Instructor Resources that explain the goals and concepts involved in teaching activist media literacy from this perspective, including very specific examples of teaching situations and contexts, and curricula suggestions.