{"title":"Talking about Race: The Role of Racial Identity Development Models in Antiracist Pedagogy","authors":"J. O'Donnell","doi":"10.3138/SIM.2.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.2.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"This research explores the efficacy of using Racial Identity Development (RID) models as a curricular tool for antiracist pedagogy by examining the responses of high school students and university undergraduate students to a newspaper article that describes a racial incident. In a comparison of the responses of the two groups, the choice of language and the construction of arguments present a level of similarity unexplained by RID models. RID models are discussed in order to explore their role in curricular planning for antiracist pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122667893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Storied Lives, Dialog –> Retro-reflections: Melding Critical Multicultural Education and Critical Race Theory for Pedagogical Transformation","authors":"J. H. Writer, Rudolfo Chávez Chávez","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.4.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.4.001","url":null,"abstract":"We are critical retro-reflective teacher educators and cultural workers. As such, we have a civic responsibility to embrace courage, compassion, equity, social justice, and social activism. We also have the responsibility to deconstruct dominant subordinating narrative and stories. The purpose of this article is to create a counter story via our retro-reflective dialog, centered within our deep-seated existence as culturally ethnic, racialized, and gendered beings. We illustrate how the process of retro-reflection is a hopeful contingency for transformative praxis using the theoretical tools of Critical Race Theory and Critical Multicultural Education. Our retro-reflections expose and de-center the tacit practice of white supremacy–a hegemonic construct often embedded within teacher education programs. Through our retro-reflections, we hope to create personal and pedagogical transformations for both ourselves and others involved in the struggle for social justice and equity.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121076563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loving the Letter, Teaching the Truth: Creating a Community of the Question in the English Education Classroom","authors":"P. Trifonas","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.4.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.4.003","url":null,"abstract":"This article suggests that, in order to reduce the numbing sense of divisiveness permeating the public sphere of our lives and classrooms, it is necessary to create the solidarity of a community of difference borne of affirmation and respect for others, rather than a simple celebration of a community of differences where subjects are perceived to exist more-or-less independently of each other as the multiple sites of isolated or marginalized selves. It is within the affirmative ethics of a “community of the question” and the multiple sites of literacy that arise from within it that a synthesis of the negative values of difference as a foundational concept of democratic education can occur. This will provide a philosophical and methodological means through which to rethink the ground of the principle of educational equity beyond the competing distinctions of either/or categories.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126931749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Channeling Girl Power: Positive Female Media Images in “The Powerpuff Girls”","authors":"D. Potts","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.4.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.4.002","url":null,"abstract":"Using information from web site reviews as well as interviews with preschool, elementary, undergraduate, and graduate students, this article argues that the television show “The Powerpuff Girls,” despite its violent nature, appeals to the vast majority of its viewers because it provides positive female media images that are not based on sex appeal. In addition, viewer comments reveal that the show is viewed as empowering for both girls and boys because children are depicted as saviors to adults.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123127683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the Mouse Sensitive? A Study of Race, Gender, and Social Vulnerability in Disney Animated Films","authors":"V. Faherty","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.3.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.3.001","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a quantitative content analysis of characters appearing in the 19 most successful and most recent Disney animated movies. The focus is on the variables of diversity (including gender, race/ethnicity, and age), assigned roles within the films, and social vulnerability, defined as any life situation or condition that makes one susceptible to being hurt or disadvantaged in some manner, either physically, emotionally, or economically. Results are mixed. There are several positive outcomes for which the Disney Corporation should be applauded, but there are also a number of serious lapses.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134162424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of Media Librarianship: A Tangled History of Change and Constancy","authors":"L. Widzinski","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.3.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.3.002","url":null,"abstract":"In the past 75 years, media librarians have witnessed and dealt with a steady and often bewildering progression of new media forms and formats, as well as a rapidly expanding content universe. Media collections and services in libraries have therefore evolved at a rapid pace. Media librarianship has undergone a significant transformation, buffeted by changing perceptions of the field, changing expectations, new roles, and new demands. As a framework for looking toward the future of the profession, this article provides an overview of the birth and evolution of media librarianship in the United States, including a snapshot of the current state of the profession, the organization and staffing of media operations, and professional training for media librarianship.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133740934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Scatterbrained Apes” and “Mangy Fools”: Lexicalizations of Ideology in Children's Animated Movies","authors":"Anjali Pandey","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.3.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.3.003","url":null,"abstract":"Linguistic evidence from popular children's animated movies demonstrates that there is a consistent attempt in these movies to present non-standard varieties of English as isomorphous with lower cultural and socio-economic status. Constraints on lexical choice in children's movies reflect and sustain prejudice towards various dialects of English. Data is analyzed within the socio-cognitive discourse framework proposed by","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125604828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intermediary Space and Media Competency: Children's Media Play in “Out of School Hours Care” Facilities in Australia","authors":"K. Vered","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.2.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.2.003","url":null,"abstract":"To understand how children acquire their overall media competency, we need to examine media use in the many different environments in which children have access to media. This study examines children's public media use in the everyday environment of Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) services in South Australia. Along with the home and classroom, OSHC is one of the places where children commonly encounter media entertainments. Since OSHC is a recreational center, usually located on school grounds, the two most common purposes and ideological notions of media use—entertainment and education—overlap in the spaces of OSHC facilities. OSHC is thus theorized as intermediary space across temporal and spatial categories. The study will bring to light some of the social dimensions of leisure time media use. These findings are then applied to curriculum development for media use in OSHC services.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130180543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Conceptual Framework for Explaining Information Behavior","authors":"Diane Nahl","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.2.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.2.001","url":null,"abstract":"Three congruent theoretical approaches to defining and measuring information behaviors are reviewed, representing three compatible theories within the behavioral tradition in social and information sciences. The taxonomic approach focuses on identifying the levels and sub-components of information behaviors in the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor domains. The psychodynamic approach focuses on conflict resolution within the self between affective uncertainty and cognitive incomprehension. The ethnomethodological approach focuses on the communicative meaning of new information and its role in the lives of users. These three behavioral approaches provide the context for new insights in the study of information environments. Two applications are described, dealing with the taxonomy of technophobia and with information counseling.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122580913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Fantasies: Reading “The X-Files” Psychoanalytically","authors":"jan jagodzinski, Brigitte Hipfl","doi":"10.3138/SIM.1.2.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.1.2.002","url":null,"abstract":"Based on extensive interviews with serious fans of the television series “The X-Files” between the ages of 15 and 20 in Canada and Austria, this article uses a Lacanian psychoanalytical approach to analyze the enduring fascination of “The X-Files” through an examination of the psychic structure of selected episodes. The Lacanian psychic register of the Real, the circulation of desire, and the surplus enjoyment of jouissance are utilized to articulate the fantasy structure of the series. The paranormal and alien presence in this television series may be understood as an act of resistance to the incomprehensibility of a techno-global information age.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"372 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124657020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}