Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education / Edition 1

by Antonio Lopez

Overview

This book offers a focused and practical guide to integrating the relationship between media and the environment—ecomedia—into media education. It enables media teachers to "green" their pedagogy by providing essential tools and approaches that can be applied in the classroom.

Media are essential features of our planetary ecosystem emergency, contributing to both the problem of and solution to climate chaos, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deforestation, water contamination, and so on. Offering a clear theoretical framework and suggested curriculum guide, the book provides key resources that will enable media educators to apply ecomedia concepts to their curricula. By reconceptualizing media education, this book connects ecology, environmental communication, ecomedia studies, environmental humanities, and ecoliteracy to bridge media literacy and education for sustainability.

Ecomedia Literacy is an essential read for educators and scholars in the areas of media literacy, media and communication, media and cultural studies, environmental humanities, and environmental studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138303393
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/2020
Series:	Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Antonio Lopez is Associate Professor and Chair of the Media Studies and Communications Department at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xii

Preface: Media Education and the Climate Emergency xiii

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction: Ecomedia Literacy 1

Part I Ecological Worldviews and the Ecomediasystem 35

1 Ecocultural Worldviews: Decolonizing Media Education 37

2 Environmental Ideology and Eco-Ethics 67

3 Disturbing the Ecomediasystem: Ecomedia Objects 93

Part II The Ecomediasphere 121

4 The Ecomediasphere 123

5 Ecomedia Footprint: Ecomateriality 150

6 Ecomedia Footprint: Lifeworld 166

7 Ecomedia Mindprint: Political Ecology 184

8 Ecomedia Mindprint: Ecoculture 204

Part III Ecomedia Literacy 227

9 Ecomedia Pedagogy 229

10 Teaching Ecomedia Literacy 252

11 Conclusion: The 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, COVID-19, and Black Lives Matter 276

Index 283

Editorial Reviews

"Antonio Lopez's excellent book on ecomedia literacy makes major contributions to a growing literature on the topic that is important for making education relevant for key issues and problems of the day, and is important as well that citizens become aware of the growing ecological crises and challenges to a sustainable future."

Douglas Kellner, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, UCLA, USA

"Antonio Lopez is one of the remarkable media educators who has been working for years on developing a holistic and systemic framework for understanding media—a framework that incorporates a deep understanding not only of the politics and economics of media technologies, but of the ways they ethically implicate us as citizens active within expanding circles of social responsibility. Lopez’s ‘ecomediasphere’ model presents an admirable synthesis of insights from popular education, media and cultural studies, and the rapidly growing field of ecomedia theory and practice. This is cutting-edge work on a topic that couldn’t be more important."

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought & Culture, University of Vermont, USA

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