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Academic Research

Cognitive Apprenticeship Strategies for the Media Literacy Classroom

Educators leverage real-world topics and engagement-driven content to apply cognitive apprenticeship principles in a semester-long course. This case study offers insights on building students' confidence in navigating information independently.​

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Communications in Information Literacy, 2024.  

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Boundary Work, Journalism Education, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

An award winning conference paper about the intersection of journalism education, professionalism, and labor law is expanded and published in a top journal.

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Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2024

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Demarcated: Scholastic Journalism, Collegiate Journalism and the Fight to Define Journalism Education

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Tensions between scholastic and collegiate journalism programs in the 1920s-30s centered on who could teach, learn, and ultimately practice journalism professionally.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference

Philadelphia, PA, 2024

Streaming Media Literacy: A Theoretical Solution to a Practical Problem 

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College students spend more time watching films and TV than consuming news or doing research, but are they equipped to understand the impact of their media diet?

National Association for Media Literacy Education Annual Conference

Remote, 2024​​

License to Spill: Credentialing in Twentieth Century Journalism Education

The American Council on Education for Journalism's accreditation program aimed to professionalize the field, but critics saw a power grab.

Journal of 20th Century Media History, 2023

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Boundary Work, Specialized Accreditation for Journalism, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

How a federal judge's ruling on overtime pay sparked a battle for journalism's professional status and educational standards. 

 

Named second-place faculty paper by History Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference.

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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference

Washington, D.C., 2023

Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom 

A report from the field offers a how-to guide for leveraging contemporary issues to impart essential digital competencies.

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American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition

Chicago, IL, 2023

News Literacy Concepts for First-Year Students

Exploring the affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of information processing through media effects research-inspired news literacy activities.

Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience

Los Angeles, CA, 2023

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Re: Beyond Fake News

A new approach to news literacy highlights the impact of journalistic standards and organizational influences on news creation, and the role of individual biases in news consumption.

 

Named in the American Library Association's Library Instruction Roundtable Top 20 instruction articles for 2023. 

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Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2023

Agenda-Setting: What a Media Effects Theory Can Add to Information Literacy Instruction

Teaching media effects theories like agenda-setting empowers students to critically examine the subtle ways legitimate news sources can unintentionally misinform audiences.

LOEX Proceedings, 2022

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Uncovering the Protest Paradigm Through Visual Framing: A Media Literacy Lesson for College Students 

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Media literacy lesson plan uses protest images to teach college students how to identify protest paradigms and visual framing in mainstream news media.

National Association for Media Literacy Education Annual Conference

Remote, 2021

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