Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Teaching for Social Justice: Pop Culture in the Classroom
  • 2 Agency and Power as Media Engagement
  • 3 Pop Culture and Power: Teaching as Research
  • 4 The Monopoly Project: Meaning Making through Board Game Production
  • 5 The Hunger Games: Using Popular Film to Learn about Power
  • 6 Celebrity Marketing: Gender Performances in Popular Music
  • 7 Are You Being Hailed? Advertising as a Venue for Critical Media Literacy
  • 8 Agency Revisited: Pop Culture in a Participatory Classroom
  • 9 Power Revisited: Harnessing Media Engagement to Social Change
  • APPENDICES
  • Appendix A: Course Syllabus for CSL Seminar
  • Appendix B: Writing and Other Homework Activities - CSL Seminar 2012
  • Appendix C: Ethics and Example of Parent/ Guardian Informed Consent Letter
  • Appendix D: Details from the Hunger Games Project Lesson Plan
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index