“Fans will not only have the opportunity to interact with the story, but actually be a part of it.”
Five Simple Things It’s Easy to Overlook About Comics
April 25, 2013 By 4 Comments
At ALA Midwinter, one of the people in attendance asked how many librarians in the audience still encounter opposition from parents, teachers, or school administrators in promoting and collecting comics. I was astounded to see the majority of the librarians in the audience raise their hands.
After Earth Day, Who “Speaks” for Nature?
April 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
Aren’t most of our public policy debates about the environment informed by factoids/partial data/dramatic images supplied by media coverage rather than the relevant research?
Visual Literacy and Media Literacy QuickLink: Brutally Honest Oscar Posters
February 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
Just in case you missed this gallery of reimagined posters for the Best Picture Oscar nominees when College Humor debuted it last month…
Giveaway: Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack of BULLY
February 12, 2013 By 15 Comments
Young people need to understand the way that media texts position them—even with, or perhaps especially with, those texts whose content they are sympathetic to…
‘Tales of the Night,’ ‘The Dark Knight Returns,’ and the Problem of Animation for Teens
January 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What animation exists out there that’s regularly screened in schools or shelved in libraries that’s the equivalent of MG or YA lit—feature films (not TV shows) that speak to young people but not to “children”?
Please Take This, Copy It, Use It, Improve It: A Digital Fandom Checklist
January 26, 2013 By 8 Comments
Teaching librarians and language arts educators have, via fandom, a unique opening to reframe netiquette as something other than a subset of character education or online safety.
Guest Post by Maria Selke… There and Back Again: (Re)Visiting ‘The Hobbit’ in Image and Text (1)
December 10, 2012 By 4 Comments
A year ago, I wouldn’t have considered examining trailers in a reading group…
Guest Post by Gabrielle Bondi… Five Things Readers and Fans Don’t Know About YA Movies But Should (Part 2)
November 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
After leaving the test screening for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1, I was bombarded with questions about literally every scene in the book.
Moonrise Kingdom’s Lesson: Tweens are the New Teens… and the New Adults
October 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
Stories about tweens simply aren’t like those about teens or adults or “children”…
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