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Reading the media

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  • Author: Brookes, Chris
    Contributor: Battery Radio
    Summary:

    Students in a high school media literacy course learn to apply the critical tools they use to study books, poetry and short stories, to also analyze the popular culture of movies, music and television. They dissect the message behind the media to come to an understanding of the values of a consumer culture.

    Genre:
    Social science, Literary arts
    Subject(s): Critical thinking | Mass media | Mass media and youth
    Original Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland, Battery Radio
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Battery Radio Documentaries