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• Title: Interpreting Democratic Images: Secondary Students' Reading of Visual Texts (Report)
• Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 229 KB

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Today's youth are the first to always have computers, to have nearly continuous access to television, to host blogs, and to use cell phones for multiple forms of communication. They have been called digital natives as they have never lived without computer technology. And the technologies they use deliver what has been called a total media environment of 24/7/365 access to information, entertainment, and communication (Kellner, 2003, p. 105). While media is now ubiquitous and integral in the U.S. and elsewhere, its educative capacity is widely unknown and somewhat suspect. Of particular concern to those interested in democratic schools, specifically though not exclusively social studies educators, is how media forms teach with, about, and for democratic capacities. Popular television programs demonstrate good reason for suspicion, perhaps exemplified best by American Idol. This wildly popular television show, which recently generated more votes than any previous presidential election winner and 609 million ballots cast in one season, reduces civic engagement to browsing a website or texting from one's phone to support a favorite singer (National Public Radio, 2007; Sweeney, 2006). Despite the best intentions of social studies and democratic educators to help students to think deeply, carefully, and with evidence about the social world, they are confounded by a media environment that is predicated on soundbytes, shaky-screens, and instant messages of democracy made simple: I watch, I vote (or not), majority rules, and that's it. Educators concerned with democratic education of a rich and organic kind ought to take seriously how such superficial messages about living in a democracy undermines the curriculum project they hold so dear.

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