Media and Power
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Bettina Fabos, University of Northern Iowa
Christopher R Martin, University of Northern Iowa
Catherine H Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa
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Publisher: Rod Library
Language: English
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About the Book
This handbook guides students through concepts, content, and exercises that help them develop media literacy by understanding media and power. The authors want students to not only gain the ability to critically analyze the languages and discourses – textual, visual, audio, and code – that people use to create and interpret media content, but also to understand the overarching context: media possess immense power in contemporary societies around the world.
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Bettina Fabos (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is the Director of the Fortepan US cooperative photo history portal and its prototype, Fortepan IA. Both projects display curated family snapshots and historical photographs from the 19th and 20th-century. They are built in partnership with the Hungarian Fortepan. The Fortepan project is part of the global Open Portal Archive Network (OPAN), which Fabos co-founded.
Christopher R. Martin is a professor of Digital Journalism in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is author of No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class (Cornell University Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 C.L.R. James Award from the Working Class Studies Association, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2019. He is also author of an award-winning book on how labor unions are covered in the news media, Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media (Cornell University Press, 2004). Martin has been a contributing scholar to the Center for Journalism & Liberty and a regular contributor to the Working-Class Perspectives blog.
Catherine H. Palczewski, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, USA, where she also served as the Director of Debate from 1994-2009. She received her B.S., M.A, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University where she also competed in policy debate. She was a member of the 1987 US team, and in 1999 served as coach of the team, that participated in the Committee on International Discussion and Debate tour of Japan. She recently completed her term as co-editor for the American Forensic Association journal Argumentation and Advocacy. Her work has appeared in that journal, as well as in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Studies, NWSA Journal, and The Southern Communication Journal. She received the Francine Merritt Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of Women in Communication, the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, the University of Northern Iowa College of Humanities and Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award, the George Ziegelmueller Outstanding Debate Educator Award, and the Rohrer Award for the Outstanding Publication in Argumentation. Her work tends to focus on how marginalized groups rhetorically construct their messages to gain access to, and be legible in, the dominant public sphere.