Media Education in the United States: A Check Under the Gestalt Hood
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Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 1

Media Education in the United States: A Check Under the Gestalt Hood

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Published 2001-03-01
Melissa Phillips
Media Workshop, New York
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Phillips, Melissa. 2001. “Media Education in the United States: A Check Under the Gestalt Hood”. MediaEducation: Journal for Theory and Practice of Media Education 1 (Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik): 47-60. https://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/877.
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Abstract

In the United States, media education is a slippery and vague business — an idea struggling to become a legitimate field of study, practice and public concern. The United States is one of the few industrialized nations left to embrace media education policy on any systemic level1 (Bazalgette, Bevoret & Savino, eds., 1992) while it is the largest producer of media in the world, thus it is troubling that this discussion refuses to happen in any sort of engaged and rigorous way.