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Fanfiction: What Educators Really Need to Know
Do young fanfiction authors seek the kind of feedback that educators would find “useful” in K-12 settings, and are fanfiction communities really the nurturing environments of peer-critique that some make them out to be?
In Honor of Baseball’s All-Star Game, A Book to Pre-Order
Student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text.
Something to Consider on the Eve of Comic-Con: Cosplay and Critical Thinking
"We can look at cosplay as a medium that assists other media, anime and manga, by targeting a certain audience segment related to fandom."
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Confessions of a Cosplaying Librarian
"The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character."
The Pop Culture Propaganda of Ender’s Game, Pacific Rim, and G.I. Joe
These posters' apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what's most worth exploring with young people...
Moriarty, Hannibal, and Despicable Me: How We End Up Rooting for the Bad Guy
It's okay to find the villain appealing in certain respects—in fact, much of pop culture depends on our doing just that.
‘World War Z’ At the Movies: Some Critical Thinking Questions
Media literacy discussion points covering novel-to-film adaptations, marketing, genre, screen violence, and more.
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