Macedo, Donaldo and Shirley R. Steinberg, eds. Media Literacy: a Reader. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Key Excerpts: Working with students as young as preschool age, Vivian Vasquez (2003) encourages them to ask the following questions: "Whose voice is heard? Who is silenced? Whose reality is presented? Whose reality is ignored? Who is advantaged? Who is disadvantaged?" (p. 15). (14) Awareness of the fact that media are constructions with imbedded points-of-view opens them up for critical evaluation... read more
