The student understands the significans of media and information literacies in multicultural learning environments. The student can analyze comparative research on the uses of media and global aspects of media literacy education.
The uses of the literature will be agreed in the beginning of lectures: two publications of the list:
Ingegerd Rydin & Ulrica Sjöberg (toim.) Mediated Crossroads: Identity, Youth Culture and Ethnicity. Göteborg: Nordicom. 2008.
Bailey O, Georgiou M and Harindranath R (eds) Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-Imagining Diaspora. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Kangas, Sonja (ed.)(2011) Digital Pioneers Cultural drivers of Future Media Culture. Helsinki: Finnish Youth Research Network, Online Publications:
[http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/julkaisuja/digitalpioneers.pdf]
Carlsson, Tayie, Jacquinot-Delaunay, Perez (eds.) (2008) Empowerment through Media Education. An Intercultural Dialogue. NORDICOM.
Frau-Meigs, Divina & Torrent, Jordi (eds.) (2009) Mapping Media Education Policies in the World. United Nations, Alliance for Civilizations, Unesco, European Comission, Gurpo Communicar. [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001819/181917e.pdf]
Perez-Tornero, Varis (2010) Media Literacy and New Humanism. United Nations & Unesco Institue for Information Technologies in Education. [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001921/192134e.pdf]