{"title":"Queer Worldmaking in Animal Crossing: Disruptive and Joyful Critical Media Literacies","authors":"S. Shelton, Carlson H. Coogler, Venus Watson","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000While the educational possibilities for the Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing: New Horizon seem near-endless, we have been particularly struck with the game’s worldmaking potential, and the ways that such opportunities push against pervasive anti-queer and anti-trans educational legislation, while offering queer- and trans- affirming communities and creativity for players. Through analysis of online gaming communities, online gaming community, and authors’ gameplay, this paper explores the research question: How does acnh afford players opportunities to engage in queer- and trans-affirming worldmaking through critical media literacies? Our findings include considerations of the in-game gender elasticity afforded players and player-created online lgbtq+ communities.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125048218","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":"Creating Relating Stories: Fragmentating the Social Fabric of Heteronormativity through Critical Media Literacies","authors":"Mark Vicars, S. Tartakover","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The problematics of social and academic participation for gender diverse and lgbtqi+ youth in school communities is highlighted by the stigmatising relational dynamics which often become the dominant narrative in educational domains. This paper discusses the creation of a critical literacy/media product which arose from a year 7 level curriculum project in which students were invited to seek solutions to address a problem about which they cared. In 2021 a group of Australian secondary school students undertook an investigation into gender diversity and lgbtqi+ inclusion. In partnership with teachers and pre-service teachers they co-designed an animation on gender identity opening up wider discussion of ‘orientations and dispositions’ and generating critique around issues of social justice, democracy, equality and inclusion in and out of the classroom.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131929172","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":"Queer(ing) and Trans(ing) Critical Media Literacies in Response to Anti-lgbtqia+ Legislation and Policies","authors":"Ryan Schey, S. Shelton","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130380638","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}
Leonard D. Taylor, Dion T. Harry, Reginald A. Blockett
{"title":"Black Queer Fugitivity: Agency, Language, and Digital Joy","authors":"Leonard D. Taylor, Dion T. Harry, Reginald A. Blockett","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Moving beyond axial considerations, we recount the experiences of Black queer educators and the literacies we engage in for survival and thriving (Blockett et al. 2022). In our pointed exploration of virtual and physical, we consider anti-Black and anti-queer moments as sites of fugitivity – a Black resistance formation (Best & Hartman 2005; Givens 2021). For this paper, we focus on non-conventional, un-codified, rule-defying literacies that Black queer people have and continued to engage to resist, subvert, decenter, exist, and create. In doing so we provide insight into the survival and agency of Black queer people, and invite opportunities to consider new possible futures for the experiences of Black queer educators.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123394820","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":"Queer Mediated Practices as a Method to Center and Sustain Critical Health and Media Literacies","authors":"A. Vera, Vanessa L. Kitzie, Travis L. Wagner","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Queer communities experience challenges when accessing accurate and comprehensive health information. These challenges span across media and information environments and threaten queer health promotion. This paper explored how 11 queer community health workers (chw s) in a Southeastern US state respond to, subvert, and resist these challenges when creating digital health information resources for their queer communities. This longitudinal action research occurred over two years and included multiple qualitative data types. We analyzed these data using qualitative coding, following deductive and inductive strategies. Findings demonstrate how queer chw s: 1) identified risks and barriers to health promotion their communities experienced; 2) created health information resources that proactively guarded against risks and reactively resisted barriers; 3) borrowed content, format, and logic from other digital media sources, remixing and repurposing them in ways relevant to their communities. Findings denote implications for decentering deficit-based approaches to framing the health and media literacies of queer populations.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115978141","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":"Queer Critical Media Literacy and Possibilities for Counterhegemonic Pedagogy","authors":"S. Woolley","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper, the author considers the analysis of representation and the production of media as two generative pedagogical practices in which queer critical media literacy can give students tools to read and produce society and texts in counterhegemonic ways. Queering critical media literacy generates theoretical and practice-oriented interventions that can focus students’ and teachers’ attention on representation and production, including the reproduction of cisnormativity and ableism as well as their critiques. Engaging with multimodal texts through queer critical media literacy affords students and teachers creative possibilities for reading and producing queer texts, for queering the form of a text, and for queering the genre of “assignment.” Such creative production skills and critical thinking skills serve students for a lifetime while nurturing their processes of identification, representation, and critique – powerful counterhegemonic tools that can be useful in response to anti-queer sociopolitical tensions in public education.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"678 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116982513","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":"Conclusion to the Special Issue: Dreaming of Shared Futures through the Pedagogical Impulse of Care","authors":"Bishop Owis","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130474316","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}
Addie Shrodes, Claire A. Coyne, Di Chen, K. Macapagal, Briahna T Yuodsnukis
{"title":"“I Want to Know What People are Saying”: Trans Youth Learning Critical Media Literacies to Negotiate Hate on Social Media","authors":"Addie Shrodes, Claire A. Coyne, Di Chen, K. Macapagal, Briahna T Yuodsnukis","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03020005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03020005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000We draw on 37 interviews with a racially diverse group of 21 trans and queer teenagers to consider how they used social media to navigate dominant ideologies amid rapidly accelerating white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, anti-transness, and anti-queerness in 2019-2020. The analysis emerges from a humanizing qualitative study of lgbtq+ youth digital life conducted in partnership with an interdisciplinary gender health program that provides holistic services. Employing grounded theory and intersectional theories of queer politics, we expand conceptualizations of queer critical media literacies. We find that youth in the study enacted critical media literacies to 1) anticipate the logics of hate by which they are oppressed; 2) unlearn dominant ideologies that structure privilege; 3) and rehearse responses to intersecting oppression. Understanding the ways youth negotiate dominant ideologies on social media can inform the design of critical media literacy teaching and learning to confront phobic forces in multiple youth-serving contexts.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129448042","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}
Rachel Guldin, Krystal E. Noga-Styron, Sarah Britto
{"title":"Media Consumption and News Literacy Habits During the covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Rachel Guldin, Krystal E. Noga-Styron, Sarah Britto","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03030003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03030003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The covid-19 pandemic disrupted political, economic, and social life in the United States beginning in March 2020, disproportionately affecting historically underrepresented groups. Media assumed unique roles during the pandemic, serving simultaneously as the gateway to work, education, social life, news, and public health information. Yet the covid-19 pandemic has been so challenged by misinformation that the World Health Organization declared it an infodemic. Because misinformation can prolong pandemics and increase deaths, news and media literacy can benefit society at large, especially vulnerable populations. The purpose of this descriptive study is to capture how undergraduates used media, how they obtained their news, and how they engaged news literacy skills during the covid-19 pandemic. A survey of over 900 undergraduate students showed that over two-thirds of respondents increased media use. Over half of respondents reported entertainment as their top reason for media use during the pandemic and reported news as their last reason. Respondents reporting previous exposure to news literacy education were significantly more likely to use most of the measured news literacy strategies. The findings of this study can support developing pandemic-responsive news and media literacy education which will be useful during future pandemics.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129106531","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":"Creating Gaps in Understanding: How Gen Z Disrupts Gender Norms on TikTok","authors":"Ellen Wynne, W. Wright, D. Alvermann","doi":"10.1163/25900110-03030001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25900110-03030001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Since its inception, social media has been an important method of constructing and performing identity, including gender identity. Identity work on social media is perhaps especially relevant to Gen Z (those born after 1996; Parker & Igielnik, 2020), who are the first generation with access to it in early childhood. In this article, we explore how Gen Z constructs and performs gender identity and other facets of intersectional identity on popular video platform TikTok by analyzing selected content from three TikTokers through the lenses of performativity, intersectionality, and automediality.","PeriodicalId":344115,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132681934","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}