According to Henry Jenkins (2008), new media skills describe the ways that people interact with various forms of media. These skills are play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation.
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Popular Media and Grade 6-12 Literacy: A Review of Practitioner Literature
Kelli Bippert (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, USA)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5770-9.ch001
Abstract
Adolescents in the 21st century engage with popular media in a variety of ways. Adolescent students' interactions with video games, videos, social media, and other forms of popular media have become a growing topic of study among academics interested in popular media's role in in-school literacies. To complicate matters, secondary classroom teachers continue to grapple with state and national standards that address traditional reading and writing skills. This systematic literature review focuses on what articles from practitioner journals reveal about adolescent participation in popular media, and how media skills are addressed. The analysis provided here is based on a random sample of 35 articles focusing on popular media and in-school literacies.