Keyword: media

The digital landscape and new education providers

Briony Greenhill

This report aims to consider the role that may be played in educational provision by organisations and sectors who, to date, have rarely been considered part of mainstream... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: education, digital environment, media, home, school

Blurring the boundaries: connectivity, convergence and communication in the new media ecology

Heather A. Horst

Over the past decade the introduction of networked and digital media has dramatically altered the media ecologies of young people. In North America, Western Europe and East Asia,... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: new media, mobility, connectivity, collaboration, media, technology, society, inequality

Virtual disruptions: traditional and new media’s challenges to heteronormativity in education

Aubry D Threlkeld

Schools generally reinforce heteronormative discourses to the degree that queer representations surface primarily through traditional mass media, and new cybermedia sources. In order to inspect possible future... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: sexuality, education, future, media, society, gender, networking, virtual worlds

Popular representations of the working class: contested identities and social change

David Weltman

This review critically explores media representations of working class people and working class lives. Drawing on various studies, as well as other examples from different forms of media,... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: class, media, technology, identity, ethnicity, education, future