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        apologies for any cross postings...
        SIMILE Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2002 is now available at
        www.utpjournals.com/simile
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        Announcing the sixth issue (see table of contents and abstracts
below) of
        Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (SIMILE), a new
e-journal
        published by the University of Toronto Press.

        The journal, which is currently available for free, is intended to
be an electronic meeting place for anyone and everyone interested in the
broad subject of media literacy. The journal will be published four times
per year, in February, May, August, and November. Each issue will contain
three or four full-length refereed articles from scholars approaching media
literacy from a wide variety of perspectives.

        SIMILE hopes to bring together scholars and educators at all levels
from the
        research university to the grade school to the community college and
        everything in between. The submission of theoretically-based work
that has
        been tested and applied in the field-the kind of work that demands
        collaboration between university-based researchers and, for example,
high
        school teachers-is strongly encouraged.

        SIMILE Volume 2 Issue 2 May 2002

        Scott Robert Olson
        Contaminations and hybrids: Indigenous identity and resistance to
global media

        ABSTRACT
        Postcolonial theory has noted how the dissemination of transnational
media has accelerated the hybridization of culture (Bhabha, 1997;
Paspatergiadis, 1995; Spivak, 1995), a process that is often likened to
infection or contamination (Fisher, 1995). In such a metaphor, the media are
the viral agent. Identity cannot help but be affected, creating numerous
cultural problems for the subaltern and indigenous peoples. In order to
counter the strategies of transnational media, identified by Sholle (1988)
as sedimentation, reification, adaptation, mollification, and
depolitization, the subaltern are resorting to counter tactics identified
here as eruption, deconstruction, mutation, intensification, and
politicization. At the same time, the subaltern use the media available to
them to enact their own alternative communication strategies of dialogue,
mutual interest, rule changing, revolution, secession, and solipsism

        Kate Manuel
        How first-year college students read Popular Science: An experiment
in teaching media literacy skills

        ABSTRACT
        Over the course of three consecutive quarters during the 2000-2001
academic year, 63 students enrolled in an information literacy course at a
western American public university were required to conduct a close reading
of an article from Popular Science after preliminary instruction in key
information and media literacy concepts. Students' responses to questions
about (1) the nature of the information and documentation presented by the
text, (2) the purpose and intended audience of the text, and (3) the
authorship and point of view of the text were examined to see to what degree
students were able to think critically about these articles. Findings
suggest that, even after basic instruction in information and media literacy
skills, many students have difficulties identifying problems (biases,
authors' lack of credentials, lack of sources, etc.) with information
resources largely because of the ways in which they typically misread texts
and make mistaken inferences from them. This article provides quantitative
and qualitative descriptions of students' misreadings and mistaken
inferences; discusses possible explanations for students' difficulties in
interpreting texts; and examines the implications of these difficulties for
information literacy and media literacy education.

        Shehla Burney
        Manufacturing nationalism: Post-September 11 discourse in United
States media

        ABSTRACT
        Using Chomsky's notion of the manufacture of consent as well as
Said's critiques of Orientalism and culture and imperialism, this article
presents a theory and way of looking at post September 11 discourse in
United States media as a hegemonic, state-oriented manufacturing of
nationalism. Story and memory, images, words and icons, ritual, spectacle,
advertising, and commercialism are deployed subliminally to construct
self-serving nationalist mythologies. These grand narratives of nationalism
evoke meanings and ideologies, which produce an us/them nationalist
discourse that demonizes and dehumanizes the other. The US[A]/ THEM
discourse deflects attention elsewhere from key critical and moral issues
raised by the United States war against terrorism.

        Cornel Pewewardy
        From subhuman to superhuman: Images of First Nations peoples in
comic books

        ABSTRACT
        This article chronicles the ways in which First Nations peoples are
portrayed in comic books in the United States. Rendered first as subhuman
and then as superhuman, First Nations peoples were consistently presented as
different in comics. The superhuman characteristics that are occasionally
attributed to First Nations representatives in 20th century media are,
ideologically, not much different from the subhuman characteristics
attributed to First Nations representatives in the 19th century. Both
superhuman and subhuman portrayals serve to exclude, isolate, and deframe
First Nations peoples from a common humanity. A critical analysis of this
phenomenon can provide students with powerful insights into the challenges
that educators face as critical multicultural educators and points the way
to creating oppositional pedagogies.
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