Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education最新文献

{"title":"Revisiting and Reviewing the Media Spin Surrounding the Gulf Wars","authors":"jan jagodzinski","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.4.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.4.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126490121","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 Critical Examination of Information Literacy Instruction During a Grade 9 Research Project","authors":"Marlene Asselin, Virginia L. Lam","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.4.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.4.003","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined how information literacy curriculum and instruction was constructed during a grade 9 social studies research project as a teacher and teacher librarian worked with the whole class for ten periods in the school library. Based on video observations, teacher and student interviews, curriculum documents, and field notes, results showed that teachers held different views of information literacy, what constitutes a curriculum of information literacy, and instructional responsibilities for teaching that curriculum. The collaborative premise of information literacy instruction was consequently not realized. Although the teacher librarian attempted to establish an inquiry-based approach, the WebQuest designed for this unit appeared to reinforce students' task-driven, procedural, fact-finding notions of research projects. Current educational schemata of information literacy include skills for using the new literacies of the Internet to solve problems and the teacher librarian provided instruction in applying “operational” criteria to evaluate websites. The authors argue that the conventional paradigms of information literacy disable students from engaging in authentic and sustained inquiry and from expanding their development of new literacies, particularly the critical new literacies that enable social change. Information literacy education needs to build on established frameworks to emphasize learning from not just about information processes.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115768529","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":"E-mail Inverted Interest Index Theory: A Case-Study of Electronic Communication in a Strategic Planning Initiative at a Four-Year Public University","authors":"Myleea D. Hill","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.3.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.3.001","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic communication has become increasingly prevalent in organizational settings. Strategic planning researchers have noted the importance of communication to the success of planning and the increasing reliance on electronic communication in planning initiatives. However, despite increasing attention by researchers, its efficacy is not yet widely understood in the planning process or other organizational settings. This study, initiated during participant observation of a higher education strategic planning initiative, is founded on the premise that the hybrid nature of electronic mail – having elements of interpersonal and mass communication – calls for more research based on organizational and mass communication theory, such as media richness, social influence, mass media models, and the diffusion of innovation theory. The finding that all but the most engaged planning participants reported being overwhelmed by list-serv E-mails led to the development of the E-mail Inverse Importance Index grounded theory, which holds “The more important a sender perceives an item of information to be, the more people he or she will send it to in a mass distribution electronic mail. Inversely, the more people who receive the mass distributed E-mail, the less important the receiver will perceive the information to be to himself or herself directly.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132784571","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":"Analysis of Media Literacy Curriculum: The Center for Media Literacy's Media Lit Kit","authors":"J. Dunlop, Angel Kymes","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.3.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.3.003","url":null,"abstract":"This discussion includes a brief overview of highly-recognized, packaged media literacy curricula in the United States, looking at the core ideas, differing definitions of media literacy and the creators of the programs. We focus specifically on the Center for Media Literacy curriculum, looking “behind the curtain” to determine sociopolitical positioning of the program's supporters. In an analysis of the Media Lit Kit , a comprehensive media literacy curriculum created by the Center for Media Literacy (CML), we look at the Five Core Concepts and Five Key Questions that serve as the foundation upon which the curriculum is built, to isolate underlying assumptions and ideologies about learning and knowledge as it relates to the media. This is not to suggest that this analysis is the “correct” one; this is only one interpretation of this curriculum. Finally, one activity from the curriculum, “The World in 22 Minutes” is interrogated for its purpose and method, again looking for underlying assumptions about learning and knowledge. In sum, we deconstruct a curriculum created to teach learners to deconstruct media.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130200266","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":"Political Temperature Rising: Media Literacy, Public Opinion, and Global Warming","authors":"Bruce E. Johansen","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.3.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.3.002","url":null,"abstract":"Rising temperatures and speculation regarding their effects have made global warming a subject of copious and increasing media discourse during recent years. The amount of debate and discourse has increased markedly in the past year, with reports of rapidly rising temperatures and serious attempts at legislating greenhouse-gas limitations by a Democratic Congress. Few scientific issues exceed this one in terms of political and economic gravitas . At stake is not only the future of the Earth as a habitable environment, but the ways in which more than six billion people use energy. This study of media representation samples the rising volume and intensity of commentary on the issue. The quantity of attention is not in dispute – but what about the quality of this tide of reporting and commentary? To an informed observer, the discourse often displays the tone of a political campaign, a horse race, or a religious revival more than a scientific debate. This study is a fragment of a much larger set of debates and discourses taking place within the United States, and globally. Scientists (an important example being Goddard Institute for Space Sciences director James E. Hansen) have become more sensitive to the disconnection between what they know, and what the media are telling the public. Thus, as opinion leaders they need to creatively “frame” messages that resonate with news organizations. Al Gore has been able to use some capital from his long-term credibility as a spokesman on this issue, his post-2000 role as a counterpoint to the George W. Bush presidency (including its positions vis a vis global warming), his Hollywood connections, and his ability not take himself too seriously while being very serious about the issue. He's what Epstein called a “commissioned story” news source (Epstein, 1974, p. 187). By definition, when Gore speaks on this issue, he is usually newsworthy. Other scientist sources have been required to prove themselves with media to reach media agendas. This involves agenda-setting issues and news media construction of social reality. Ironically, the White House has given Hansen a tremendous boost as a newsworthy subject by introducing an element of conflict in its attempts to censor him.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126348689","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":"Establishing a Protocol for Evaluating Prosocial Merit in Children's E/I Television Programs","authors":"W. W. Anderson","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.2.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.2.002","url":null,"abstract":"This study used content analysis methodology to examine difference in levels of prosocial elements within similar E/I classified children's television series, Nickelodeon's Rugrats and PBS's Arthur , and compare them against levels of prosociality in two non E/I programs, The Cosby Show and The Simpsons , established in a previous research study. The results advance the conclusion that in situations of simultaneous broadcast, viewers would be better served watching Arthur than Rugrats . Furthermore, the methodology developed establishes a protocol for future comparison of E/I programming, which ultimately can be used to develop a linear hierarchy of prosocial program content. Additionally, this study developed a new and more concrete definition for prosociality than has been used in the past by broadcasters and policymakers. This definition has three benefits over existing definitions: scope, syntactic design, and applicability for generalization outside the framework of this study by broadcasters, policymakers, and media literacy scholars.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127671883","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 Phenomenon of Unsolicited E-mails with Attachments","authors":"Xingan Li","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.2.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.2.003","url":null,"abstract":"Unsolicited e-mails became prevalent with the growing penetration of computer networks. The senders of unsolicited e-mails make every effort to get the attention of the recipient. The goal is for their messages and/or attachments to be opened. The victimization of recipients of unsolicited messages with attachments happens without the recipients actually accessing their e-mail accounts. The victimization-conspiracy model happens when the messages include contents offering products or services that need illegal involvement of the recipients. The recipients of messages with such offers are first victimized by the unsolicited messages; and if they accept the illegal services or purchase the illegal products, they are likely to become the co-conspirators of the senders. The senders and the recipient would reach an illegal double win effect. The unsolicited messages with attachments provide e-mail users many different options. The majority of messages in this study, however, offered recipients two alternatives; to conspire in tax evasion, or to be damaged by viruses.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128396281","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":"High School Students' Perceptions on Potential Links Between Media and Health Behaviors","authors":"A. Damico, Heidi A. Fuller","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.2.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.2.001","url":null,"abstract":"Research has demonstrated the concern over the relationship between media use among adolescents and its possible impact on their thoughts, attitudes and behaviors in regards to their health choices. Little is known about students' own perceptions of the relationship between media use and health behaviors. This study explores students' perceptions about this relationship as self described on qualitative surveys distributed to 84 students in a racially and socioeconomically diverse high school. Results demonstrate a range of perspectives on issues such as violence, sex, disordered eating, body image and substance use. Student perceptions on these issues can be used to inform media literacy practice.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133997000","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":"Editors’ Note: The Need for Media and Information Literacy in Graduate Education","authors":"J. Lipschultz, M. Hilt","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"Media and information literacy perspectives could offer new justification for the expansion of graduate program offerings in a variety of fields. The interdisciplinary field of media and information literacy continues to discover new paths of research. For example, visual literacy, computer advertisements, critical deconstruction of media, distance education, convergence, video games and music videos were some of the topics explored in 2006.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123661171","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":"Then and Now: Lessons from History Concerning the Merits and Problems of Distance Education","authors":"Jonathan Adams","doi":"10.3138/SIM.7.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.7.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"A well-known saying suggests that “those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” To understand those lessons, a content analysis was conducted concerning university extension and commercial correspondence courses in literature printed between 1898 and 1941. A total of 93 documents were collected from scholarly journals and popular publications listed in the JSTOR and The Reader's Guide to Periodic Literature. The analysis showed that many of the driving forces and problems that exist with distance education today also existed in the early years of correspondence programs offered by mail through university extension programs and for profit organizations. Thus, a major question is how to solve these problems and retain credible outreach education that can benefit both those who receive it and those who provide it.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128770766","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}