Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy [Hardcover]

Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy explores the role of both traditional and new media in critical communication pedagogy. This edited volume addresses not only how new and other forms of media serve as tools towards social justice in the communication classroom, but also how those media transform the classroom interaction itself in empowering and disempowering ways. Contributors describe and assess how particular instances of media useparticularly the use of new media technologiessupport or challenge critical communication pedagogy. Each chapter engages in critical analysis of how to effectively use particular mediums in the classroom, how classroom communication is affected by uses of new media, and particular instances of critical communication pedagogy in teaching. Scholars of communication and education will find this book particularly useful.

Ahmet Atay is associate professor of communication at the College of Wooster.


Deanna L. Fassett is department chair and professor of communication pedagogy and coordinator of the department's graduate teaching associate program at San Jos? State University.

This edited collection from Atay (College of Wooster) and Fassett (San Jos? State Univ.) is a timely release, given the rise of alternative facts, fake news, and Twitter today. Contributors examine provocative themes ranging from the significance of diversity in mediated critical communication pedagogy to the use of film as a conduit to the application of critical communication pedagogy while interrogating possibilities for maximizing theory and praxis in classrooms. Another key contribution is the synthesis of several concepts, such as mediated communication and critical communication pedagogy, to create new ways of talking about complex relations between media and technology uses and teaching and learning communication. Of particular significance is the contributors attention to issues of social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusil#"