Media Literacies for a Living World
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017 • 09:00-11:15a
What is Life? Conference-Experience
University of Oregon in Portland

Chair: Mark Johnson, Philosophy, University of Oregon
• W. James Potter, Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Renee Hobbs, Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island
• Ed Madison, Journalism/Media Partnership, University of Oregon
• Divina Frau-Meigs, Sociology, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3, France
• Jeremy Swartz and Carl Bybee, Media Studies, University of Oregon
• Antonio López, Communications & Media Studies, John Cabot University, Italy

Cosponsors: Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs, Knight Chair in Communication Research, School of Journalism and Communication, and Turnbull Portland Center.

Resources [updated]:
• Bybee, Carl. “Can Democracy Survive in the Post-factual Age?: A Return to the Lippmann-Dewey Debate about the Politics of News.” Journalism and Communication Monographs, no. 1 (1999): 28-66.
• Bybee, Carl, and Shelby Stanovsek. “Media Education and Ecological Modernism: Embodiment, Technology and Citizenship.” Journal of Sustainability Education. Vol. 23 (April 2020).
• Bybee, Carl and Jeremy Swartz. “Walter Lippmann and John Dewey Roundtable: The 90th Anniversary of Publics.” What is Media? Experience • Exploration • Emergence Conference-Experience, University of Oregon in Portland, 2016.
• Frau-Meigs, Divina. “Mediated Well-Being from the Perspective of Media and Communication Studies.” In Handbook of Child Well-Being, pp. 437-484. Springer Netherlands, 2014.
—.. “Transliteracy as the New Research Horizon for Media and Information Literacy.” Medijske studije 3, no. 6 (2012): 14-26.
• Hobbs, Renee. Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy Through Personal Narrative. Temple University Press, 2016.
—. “Literacy: Understanding Media and How They Work.” In R. G. Picard (Ed.), What Society Needs from Media in the Age of Digital Communication (pp.131 – 160). Porto: Media XXI, 2016. [PDF}.
—.. Media Education Lab, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island.
•  Hobbs, Renee, and Sandra McGee. “Teaching about Propaganda: An Examination of the Historical Roots of Media Literacy.” Journal of Media Literacy Education 6, no. 2 (2014): 5.
•  López, Antonio. “Developing Visual Literacy Skills in Environmental Communication.” In Milstein, Tema, Mairi Pileggi, and Eric L. Morgan, eds. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice, Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media Series, 2017.
—.. “Ecomedia Literacy for Environmental Sustainability.” In Yee, Sin Joan, and Sherri Hope Culver. Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals. International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, Nordicom, 2015.
—. Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship. Peter Lang, 2014. [PDF: Ch.1]
—. “Putting the Eco into Media Ecosystems.” In Maxwell, Richard, Jon Raundalen, and Nina Lager Vestberg. Media and the Ecological Crisis. Routledge, 2014.
—.. Newsworthy—Cultivating Critical Thinkers, Readers, and Writers in Language Arts Classrooms. Teachers College Press, 2015.
—. “Mobile Media Best Practices: Lessons From 5 Years of OR Magazine.” Journalism & Mass Communication Educator (2015). [PDF]
—. “Reversing Declines in Minority Journalists: A Community-based Approach in East Palo Alto.” Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies 3, no. 3 (2014): 425-438. [PDF]
—. Journalistic Learning: Rethinking and Redefining Language Arts Curricula. PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, 2012.
• Martens, Hans, and Renee Hobbs. “How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age.” Atlantic Journal of Communication 23, no. 2 (2015): 120-137.
• Osuna-Acedo, Sara, Divina Frau-Meigs, Lucía Camarero-Cano, Adeline Bossu, Raquel Pedrosa, and Darco Jansen. “Intercreativity and Interculturality in the Virtual Learning Environments of the ECO MOOC Project.” In Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs, pp. 161-187. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2017.
• Potter, W. James. Media Literacy, Eighth Edition. Sage Publications, 2016 [Companion Website].
—.. “Guidelines for Media Literacy Interventions in the Digital Age.” Medijska istraživanja 20, no. 2 (2014): 5-31.
—.. “The Expanding Role for Media Literacy in the Age of Participatory Cultures.” In Delwiche, Aaron, and Jennifer Jacobs Henderson. The Participatory Cultures Handbook, pp. 232-243, Routledge, 2012.
• Swartz, Jeremy and Carl Bybee. “A Contemplative Metamedia Literacy Education.” International Symposia for Contemplative Studies (cosponsors: Stanford Univ. CCARE, Emory Univ. ECCS), Denver, Colorado, 2012.
• Tatone, Jenny. Integrating Contemplative Learning into New Media Literacy: Heightening Self-Awareness and Critical Consciousness for Enriched Relationships with and within New Media Ecologies. Master of Science (committee: Carl Bybee/chair, Ed Madison, Chris Chávez, et al.), University of Oregon, 2016.
• Wikipedia contributors, “Ecomedia” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed December 14, 2017).
• Wikipedia contributors, “Media Literacy,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed April 1, 2017).