Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education)

This book offers a focused and practical guide to integrate the relationship between media and the environment--ecomedia--into media education. It enables media teachers to 'green' their pedagogy by providing essential tools and approaches that can be applied in the classroom. Media are an essential features of our planetary ecosystem emergency, contributing to both the problem and solution to climate chaos, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deforestation, water contamination, and so on. Offering a clear theoretical framework and suggested curriculum guide, Antonio López provides key resources that will enable media educators to apply ecomedia concepts into their curricula. By reconceptualizing media education, this book connects ecology, environmental communication, ecomedia studies, environmental humanities, and ecoliteracy to bridge media literacy and education for sustainability. Ecomedia Literacy is an essential read for educators and scholars in the areas of media literacy, media and communication, media and cultural studies, environmental humanities, and environmental studies.

• | Author: Antonio Lopez
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: November 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 306 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138303380
• | ISBN-13: 9781138303386