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Speaking the lower frequencies : students and media literacy / Walter R. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Walter R., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Media literacy--United States.
- Media literacy.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Postmodernism and higher education--United States.
- Postmodernism and higher education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Speaking the Lower Frequencies demonstrates how students can be critical consumers of media while retaining the pleasure they derive from it. In Walter R. Jacobs's classes on media and society, students use the instructor's experiences as a model for investigating their own histories. By creating new social contexts and meanings, the students learn to "speak the lower frequencies." Jacobs looks at the students' reception and critique of pop culture texts like the movie I Like It Like That and the television show The X-Files to provide evidence for the effects of alternative pedagogy on critical literacy. He shows that when students are encouraged to be more than just passive receptors of the media they learn to develop active, critical voices that they use both inside and outside the classroom. Jacobs also explains how students can become more aware and active in attempts to create democratic possibilities for themselves and others.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Entering the Pensieve
- Autoethnography of Teachers, Texts, and Space
- Fragments of the Sociological Imagination
- Strange Texts in Postmodern Space
- Breaking and Making Frames as Context
- Conjuring the Future
- Evoking the Lower Frequencies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791483558
- 079148355X
- 9781423743972
- 1423743970
- OCLC:
- 461442046
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