1st Edition

Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods A Handbook

Edited By Pierre Fastrez, Normand Landry Copyright 2024
342 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This handbook interrogates the foundations of media literacy and media education research from a methodological standpoint. It provides a detailed, illustrated overview of key methods used in the study of media literacy and media education. Further, it reveals the diversity of this research field and organizes this diversity by using three categories of investigation: media practices, educational... Read more

Introduction: navigating the field of media literacy and media education through its research methods: media practices, educational initiatives, and prescriptive discourses

Normand Landry and Pierre Fastrez

Part 1: Media practices

Chapter One: Documenting media practices to define media literacy competence: a qualitative approach

Pierre Fastrez and Jerry Jacques

Chapter Two: Studying the media education practices of young children at home: methodological lessons from a cross-national qualitative study on digital activities at home

Stephane Chaudron, Rosanna Di Gioia, Cristina Aliagas Marin, Marina Kotrla Topić, Mari-Ann Letnes, Bojana Lobe, Mitsuko Matsumoto, Charles L. Mifsud, David Poveda, and Anca Velicu

Chapter Three: Participatory action research and media literacy: toward engaged, accountable, and collaborative knowledge production with marginalized communities

Koen Leurs, Çiğdem Bozdağ, Annamária Neag, and Sanne Sprenger

Chapter Four: Observing literacy practices in the “Third Space”: research methods

John Potter

Chapter Five: Researching media literacy practices using both critical and posthuman inquiry

Donna Alvermann, William Wright, and Ellen Wynne

Part 2: Educational initiatives

Chapter Six: Methodological considerations in researching teachers’ views and practices of media literacy

Csilla Weninger and Wei Jhen Liang

Chapter Seven: A research methodology aimed at analyzing teaching practices in relation to the development of digital skills in a university setting

Marie-Michèle Lemieux

Chapter Eight: Design-based research into the co-creation of teaching activities for the theoretical refinement of a multimodal media literacy competency model

Nathalie Lacelle and Martin Lalonde

Chapter Nine: Quantitative methods for assessing media literacy in evaluations of health promotion intervention programs using media literacy education

Christina V. Dodson, Tracy M. Scull, and Janis B. Kupersmidt

Chapter Ten: Issues of pedagogy, alignment, and context in assessing measures of media literacy

Renee Hobbs

Part 3: Prescriptive discourses

Chapter Eleven: Analyzing public policies on media education: from modalization to modeling of official discourses: proposed methodologies for a socio-anthropological approach to the analysis of institutional discourses in international comparison

Marlène Loicq

Chapter Twelve: Analyzing school curricula, training programs, and learning material: a method in media education

Normand Landry and Chantal Roussel

Chapter Thirteen: Quick-scan analysis as a method to analyze and compare media literacy frameworks

Leo Van Audenhove, Catalina Iordache, Wendy Van den Broeck, and Ilse Mariën

Chapter Fourteen: Critical discourse studies for research on media and information literacy projects: an illustrated discussion of seven methodological considerations

Jan Zienkowski and Geoffroy Patriarche

Chapter Fifteen: Rethinking media education policy research and advocacy: a deliberative approach

Gretchen King

 

Biography

Pierre Fastrez is Senior Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and Professor of Information and Communication at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His main research interests concern the definition of media literacy competence and media literacy assessment methods.

Normand Landry is Professor at TÉLUQ University and Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights. His work focuses on communication rights, media education, social movement theory, law, and democratic communications.