Cutting Through “The Fog of Scrolling”: Understanding Digital Navigation Through Metacognitive Reflections on Self-Made Video-Recordings (Poster 50)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 9:50 a.m.
  In Poster Session: Students Learning and Navigating Through New Media Landscapes

Abstract

As meaning-making increasingly happens in digital spaces, it is essential for researchers to examine how students learn to critically read and navigate online. This qualitative study examines university students’ experiences navigating online through self-created video screen recordings. Students recorded themselves navigating online and then watched these videos, creating commentaries about what they noticed about how they navigated the web. Findings highlight the role of sociality, movement, stimulation, and monetization in mediating students’ engagement and meaning-making. The author discusses these findings in relation to the dominant approaches to teaching critical media literacy in online environments awash in disinformation and manipulative content. The paper closes with suggestions for media literacy curricula and the incorporation of reflective video creation in digital literacy instruction.

Author

• Brady L. Nash, University of Florida