Digital Media and Cosmopolitan Critical Literacy: Research and Practice

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Author(s): Thomas W. Bean (Old Dominion University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 23
Source title: Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Barbara Guzzetti (Arizona State University, USA)and Mellinee Lesley (Texas Tech University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8310-5.ch003

Keywords: Digital Media / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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In this chapter I consider contemporary global conditions pointing to what some scholars term “a global risk society” where digital media and Cosmopolitan Critical Literacy offer a counterpoint to human rights, health, climate, and terrorist threats. By examining current research in global youth communication across nation-state boundaries via the Internet, existing research suggests that tapping into digital media literacy and critical media literacy will be crucial for developing an informed and critical citizenry. At present, studies of transnational youth navigating old and new affiliations across national borders are in their infancy. Nevertheless, the existing research holds promise for developing global world citizens who can realize an ethos of cosmopolitan, critical citizenship through the affordances of digital media.

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