Critical Geographic Media Literacy in Geography Education: Findings from the MiDENTITY Project in Austria
- Author(s)
- Christiane Hintermann, Felix Magnus Bergmeister, Viola Anna Kessel
- Abstract
Media are the arena where the discursive struggle over identities, cultures and geographies is carried out. Media organize our ways of thinking and acting vis-a-vis our ideas and perceptions of “us” and of “others". With the proliferation of participative information technology, (young) media users reinforce or challenge media events through activities like sharing, liking and commenting. The MiDENTITY project addresses thi sphenomenon from a pedagogic perspective and provides a case study on the implementation of Critical Geographic Media Literacy in geography education. Its central purpose is to empower students to develop a self-determined way of media use thereby reflecting on their own online practices of social in- and exclusion.
- Organisation(s)
- Department for Teacher Education, Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Journal of Geography
- Volume
- 119
- Pages
- 115-126
- No. of pages
- 12
- ISSN
- 0022-1341
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2020.1761430
- Publication date
- 05-2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 503014 Subject didactics of social sciences, 503020 Media education, 507005 Cultural geography, 503033 Political education
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, Earth-Surface Processes
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/0cb62f72-767d-4f3a-9d2d-229389c3d71d