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Alvermann, Donna E.; Hagood, Margaret C.; Williams, Kevin B. – Reading Online, 2001
Draws from the authors' own experiences in working with youth in an after-school media literacy club to examine the notion that it is possible to arrive at an understanding of how adolescents make meaning of popular culture texts by observing them in action. Teases out some meaning-making strategies that one adolescent used in strategically…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Media Literacy, Media Research