Ecomedia Literacy

Download or read book Ecomedia Literacy written by Antonio Lopez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Lâopez 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"--