Critical Media Literacy and the University as Media: A Reflexive Social Epistemology

William J. White

doi:10.4324/9781003375555-10

Critical Media Literacy and the University as Media: A Reflexive Social Epistemology

William J. White

Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)

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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	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375555-10
State	Published - Jan 1 2024

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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
General Business, Management and Accounting

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