International Perspectives on Digital and Media Literacy

This course will create a history of media literacy and digital literacy by focusingon how these discourses develop in relationship to changing industrial,technological, and political landscapes. In this pursuit, we will be contrastingbetween how these concepts have been formulated differently at different timesin different regions including the U.S., Canada, the UK, Latin America, and EastAsia. Throughout the course students will be given the opportunity to directlyengage with practitioners to get a more robust idea of the pedagogical aspects ofmedia literacy and digital literacy training.