Abstract This article explains the rationale for integrating critical media literacy across the curriculum.

Abstract

This article explains the rationale for integrating critical media literacy across the curriculum. To illustrate this discussion, the author utilizes analytical frameworks.

Introduction

Educators and parents admit reluctantly that the lives of today's adolescents are filled with massive masss of text. Learning to read and write the printed word is still essential, however is no longer sufficient in a world where television, radio, movies, videos, DVD magazines, and the World Wide Web have collectively become powerful and pervasive sites for information, public education, and literacy. Whether we like it or not, adolescents are actively involved in the recent literacies ...