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"Doing Disney" Fosters media literacy in freshmen.
Abstract
Media-literate citizens understand that cultural productions transmit ideologies and influence private and public life. The Disney assignment sequence uses academic and non-academic sources to engage college freshmen composition students in reading and writing about Disney in order to develop media literacy, helping them become more critical consumers and helping them understand the cognitive dissonance that leads to real learning.
Introduction
Having been avid consumers of media for eighteen years or more, most college freshmen have unconsciously absorbed a worldview which endorses consumerism, validates the most ubiquitous messages ...
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