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2018
Volume 114, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

A college professor redesigns an undergraduate media literacy course to focus on ecomedia literacy and participatory culture skills, with the goal of addressing climate change and cultivating active hope with postmillennial learners.

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