[1.2] Fostering students’ active use of the media

[1.3] Helping students learn to communicate in multimodal way

[1.4] Helping students engage with, appreciate, and judge media texts

[1.5] Helping students understand how media constructs reality

[1.6] Helping students learn to critique the ideological and economic forces shaping the media

[1.7] Website resources for teaching media literacy

[1.8] Final Task

[1.9] References

Powerpoints

[1.4.1]

Popular culture resources:

[1.4.2] Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
[1.4.3] Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center: Popcultures.com
[1.4.4] Popular Culture Magazine
[1.4.5] Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture
[1.4.6] Images: a journal of film and popular culture
[1.4.7]
[1.4.8] Popular Culture
[1.4.9] Popular Culture Library Popular Cultural Vertical File

[1.4.9a] Popular Culture Store (items reflect current popular culture trends)
[1.4.9b] University of California, Berkeley: Pop Culture links