This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. The field of media literacy continues to undergo changes and challenges as audiences are reconceptualized and reconfigured, media industries are transformed and replaced, and the production of media texts is available to anyone with a smartphone. The book provides an overview of these. It offers...

This book details the project "Digital Citizenship Education for Democratic Participation" involving approximately 200 pre-school and primary school children, their families, teachers and community members in the Lisbon locality. The research presented aims to answer the following question: To what extent can a local (and replicable) project, teachers in and out-of-school contexts including families, empower preschool and primary-school-aged children to become active and effective citizens in the digital era? This longitudinal study was organized as a longitudinal and exploratory project...

This book details the project "Digital Citizenship Education for Democratic Participation" involving approximately 200 pre-school and primary school children, their families, teachers and community members in the Lisbon locality. The research presented aims to answer the following question: To what extent can a local (and replicable) project, teachers in and out-of-school contexts including families, empower preschool and primary-school-aged children to become active and effective citizens in the digital era? This longitudinal study was organized as a longitudinal and exploratory project...