"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ ... enced by popular culture create both opportunities and tensions for secondary and university students. The authors examine issues of theory, identity, and pedagogy as they address participatory popular culture sites such as fan forums, video, blogs, social networking sites, anime, memes, and comics and graphic novels." (Back cover) more

"Report of a Conference sponsored jointly by the Committee on Television of the American Council on Education and the Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania, October 20 to 23/1957. Appreciation of the advantages of televised instruction — Teaching through the medium of tele ... vision: reports and criticisms — Learning through the medium of television — the search for the facts — The agents of culture at college level and their effects on study by means of television — Practical problem of good T.V. education — Educational philosophy and television, etc." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 21, topic code 410.320) more