Abstract
This chapter begins from the premise that critical media literacy (CML) scholarship’s ability to navigate the shifting ground of the twenty-first century university would be enhanced by a social epistemological understanding of its location in the academy, developed via a reflexive analytic framework. To that end, it borrows Marshall McLuhan’s “Laws of Media” to examine the university as a medium in McLuhan’s terms-as a set of historically situated social and material practices. It then similarly discusses CML to conclude that CML offers a narrative of the academy that decenters the faculty and connects the university more integrally into democratic life.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy |
| Subtitle of host publication | Radical Democracy and Decolonized Pedagogy in Higher Education |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 95-108 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040000908 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032451350 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2024 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences
- General Business, Management and Accounting