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What is Relations of Power

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Critical Roles of Digital Citizenship and Digital Ethics
A concept French philosopher Michel Foucault views as not something that is acquired, seized, shared—something that one holds on to or allows to slip away. Instead, power circulates and is constantly at play both in non-egalitarian and mobile relations ( Foucault, 1990 /1976).
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Critical Media Literacy and Relations of Power: Connecting to Digital Citizenship and Ethics
Donna E. Alvermann (University of Georgia, USA)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8934-5.ch001
Abstract
This chapter reports on a multi-year project that the author conducted using a children's picture book titled The Tantrum that Saved the World. Published in 2017 by World Saving Books, the e-version with its 64 colorfully illustrated pages tells of a little girl who stares down a pending climate crisis by channeling her tantrum power into strategies for saving the world. In the first study, the storybook's words and illustrations were analyzed using a Foucauldian genealogy to show how power circulates and why acquiring only that knowledge stops short of what a critical media literacy (CML) filter might reveal. Two additional studies, one focused on an analysis of critical literacy outside its comfort zone, and the other, a critical post-humanist analysis of digital remixing in a licensed Creative Commons website provided a basis for connecting the multi-year project to the research literature on digital citizenship and ethics.
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