Power Lines: Connecting with Teens in Urban Communities Through Media Literacy
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Power Lines: Connecting with Teens in Urban Communities Through Media Literacy

Power Lines: Connecting with Teens in Urban Communities Through Media Literacy

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Jimmeka Anderson (Author) Kelly Czarnecki (Author)  

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Helping readers understand the challenges and barriers faced by teens in urban communities, this one-of-a-kind resource offers real-world recommendations, case studies, and experience-based programmatic solutions for fostering crucial media literacy skills. Information and digital literacies are essential skills to survive and thrive in today's media-saturated world. But minoritized and economically disadvantaged youth in urban communities often lack these critical media literacy competencies. Offering a multi-faceted perspective, this book guides those who serve teens in libraries towards implementing innovative and transformative learning experiences. Librarians and YA specialists who serve urban youth in public, school, and academic libraries will gain insight on how factors such as lack of information and communication technology proficiency, inadequate technology and internet access, and instructional inequity place urban teens at high risk for media and informational illiteracy; receive hands-on and strategic guidance for connecting successfully with and creating spaces for teens in urban communities, illustrated through teen reflections, narratives from librarians and educators across the US, and voices from scholars in the field; learn about several successful media literacy programs that have been implemented in libraries and communities, from Hip Hop Studies at Virginia Tech to youth podcasting, a zine club, Black Girls Film Camp, and others; and find a toolkit of additional resources such as handout templates, sample lesson plans, and information about books and websites.
Jimmeka Anderson is a Ph.D student in the Urban Education program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a focus on urban students and critical digital media literacy. She received her master's degree in Educational Media with a focus on New Media Literacies and Global Perspectives at Appalachian State University. Currently, Jimmeka is a Media Literacy instructor at the Carolina School of Broadcasting and worked for 10 years at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in teen programming. Additionally, she has served as the Founder and Executive Director of I AM not the Media, Inc. for eight years, a nonprofit that empowers youth through media literacy and media creation. She is the North Carolina Chapter Lead for Media Literacy Now, creator of the Teen Media Literacy Conference in Charlotte, NC, and serves on the Student Leadership Council for the National Association of Media Literacy Education. Kelly Czarnecki, Teen Loft Manager at ImaginOn in Charlotte, NC, is serving as YALSA's 2020-2021 President from 2020-2021.
  • Contributor: Jimmeka Anderson
  • Imprint: ALA Editions
  • ISBN13: 9780838937907
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 363
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: American Library Association
  • Release Date: 2022-08-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jimmeka Anderson is a Ph.D student in the Urban Education program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a focus on urban students and critical digital media literacy. She received her master's degree in Educational Media with a focus on New Media Literacies and Global Perspectives at Appalachian State University. Currently, Jimmeka is a Media Literacy instructor at the Carolina School of Broadcasting and worked for 10 years at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in teen programming. Additionally, she has served as the Founder and Executive Director of I AM not the Media, Inc. for eight years, a nonprofit that empowers youth through media literacy and media creation. She is the North Carolina Chapter Lead for Media Literacy Now, creator of the Teen Media Literacy Conference in Charlotte, NC, and serves on the Student Leadership Council for the National Association of Media Literacy Education. Kelly Czarnecki, Teen Loft Manager at ImaginOn in Charlotte, NC, is serving as YALSA's 2020-2021 President from 2020-2021.

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