This handbook showcases how educators and practitioners around the world
adapted their routine media pedagogies to meet the challenges of the
COVID-19 pandemic, which often led to significant social, economic, and
cultural hardships.
Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography,
case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the
handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper
understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we
move forward. Topics range from fighting disinformation, how vulnerable
communities coped with disadvantages using media, transforming
educational TV or YouTube to reach larger audiences, supporting
students' wellbeing through various online strategies, examining early
childhood, parents, and media mentoring using digital tools, reflecting
on educators' intersectionality on video platforms, youth-produced media
to fight injustice, teaching remotely and providing low-tech solutions
to address the digital divide, search for solutions collaboratively
using social media, and many more.
Offering a unique and broad multicultural perspective on how we can
learn from the challenges of addressing varied pedagogical issues that
have arisen in the context of the pandemic, this handbook will allow
researchers, educators, practitioners, institution leaders, and graduate
students to explore how media education evolved during 2020 and 2021,
and how these experiences can shape the future direction of media
education.
