Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy

Robert C. Williams

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Chapter 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere

Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy

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Pages:: 312–325

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004448490_017

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Abstract

The blog is dead?! Long live the blog!

Much digital ink has been spilled lamenting the demise of the web log in favor of more visible social media platforms like Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram. In this chapter, I argue that in a 21st century information-rich media environment, blogs as classroom tools are more useful than ever before. I have been using blogs in my media and communications classrooms since they rose to prominence at the turn of the millennium. While I have since incorporated social media platforms, even teaching courses on social media theory and practice, I find myself returning to blogs as a “hub” of teaching and learning with students. Why? I hope to explore the answer to that question in this chapter. In the spirit of Buzzfeed-esque TOP 10 clickbait, here are eleven reasons why blogging matters more than ever for 21st century teaching and learning:

1. blogs are FREE and accessible

2. blogs are easy to create

3. blogs are easy to edit and update

4. blogs are information-rich multimedia learning platforms

5. blogs are easily networked

6. blogs help organize teams

7. blogs have (near) universal accessibility

8. blogs allow student authorship

9. blogs are useful reflective tools

10. blogs offer participatory conversational platforms

11. blogs create public and visible accountability for both students and teachers

I unpack this “top 11” list, exploring elements of blogging while tying the list to larger themes in the book. Blogging offers a wide array of pedagogical opportunities for teachers and students alike. This chapter explores the ways in which blogging can support innovative learning approaches, which include: flipped classrooms, multimedia production, team project research and design, and reflective practice.

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Education for Democracy 2.0

Changing Frames of Media Literacy

Series: Critical Media Literacies Series, Volume: 6

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004448490

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 Dec 2020

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Introduction The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis

Part 1 Engaging the Community

Chapter 2 Participatory Democratic Production

Chapter 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education

Chapter 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth

Chapter 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe

Chapter 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education

Part 2 Framing Media Literacy

Chapter 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust

Chapter 8 Buying into Participatory Culture?

Chapter 9 Gaming Education

Chapter 10 Not without Us

Chapter 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL

Chapter 12 The Social Media Landscape

Part 3 Transforming the Classroom

Chapter 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation

Chapter 14 Post-Truth Explorers

Chapter 15 Nine Key Insights

Chapter 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere

Chapter 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity

Chapter 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker

Postscript Bubbles and Baubles

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