Critical Discourse in Media: Impacts on Learning and Cultural Politics

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This panel explores theoretical frameworks and empirical findings on how discourses and narratives in digital media impact learning and cultural politics in education. Papers investigate the discourses of enslavement and its afterlife in the digital world, analyze language representations in Indigenous and Western children’s media, address tensions in Minecraft around colonial ideologies, and explore ambivalent narratives via multimodal content. Taken together, these papers present considerations for how digital and media resources are shaped and shape opportunities for student learning.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Chair

• Danielle R. Filipiak, Michigan State University

Papers

• Enslavement, Conflict, and Collective (Re)Memory: The 1619 (Digital Discourse) Project as Research, Remedy, and Repair - Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Michigan

• Excavating Colonial Narratives in Minecraft: From Noticing to Critical Making With Education Students - Robyn Ilten-Gee, Simon Fraser University; Yumiko Murai, Simon Fraser University; Maryam Gharib, Simon Fraser University

• Exploring a Multimedia Climate Change Text for Young Children: Insights From a Multimodal Content Analysis - Sarah D Reid, Illinois State University; Robby Anggriawan, Illinois State University