1st Edition

Pop Culture Literacies Teaching Interpretation, Response, and Composition in a Digital World

By Mia Hood Copyright 2025
214 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

214 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

214 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Eye On Education

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture—music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms—and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically. Part One draws on qualitative research with young people, as well as close analyses of pop culture phenomena, to illustrate how young people... Read more

Introduction

Part One: Pop Culture Literacy Framework 

1. Active Engagement             

2. Critical Engagement

 3. Strategic Engagement 

Part Two: Pop Culture Literacy Lessons 

4. The Foundations of Pop Culture Literacy 

5. Layers of Story 

6. Autoethnography 

Conclusion

Biography

Mia Hood is a curriculum designer, writing coach, and teacher educator based in New York. She has worked as a professor of literacy and secondary education at the City University of New York and a professor of professional writing at New York University. Mia received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, where she studied sociocultural and critical perspectives on literacy.