NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pelletier, Caroline; Burn, Andrew; Buckingham, David – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
This article addresses practices of textual appropriation in computer games made by young people. By focusing on how young people's production work makes reference to popular media texts, it examines the basis on which such work claims to be legible as a game text: how it claims to be literate in the context of an after-school game-making club.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Journalism Education, Popular Culture, Media Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Buckingham, David – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1999
Discusses adolescents' lack of interest in news and relates it to their apathy and cynicism about wider social and political issues. Examines whether the news media are to blame for this situation, and to what extent they might help overcome it. Discusses how news media, and the social and political issues they represent, can be made relevant to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Cultural Relevance, News Media