Katheryn Fry, the department chair of Television, Radio, and Emerging Media.
Based on her work conducting media literacy workshops in schools and other community-based organizations,聽Katherine Fry, chair of Television, Radio, and Emerging Media has developed an activist media-literacy education model that includes five main components that she says combine to produce a holistic approach:
- Content鈥攖eaching about identifying different forms of content.
- Political economy鈥攗nderstanding how power and money shape media technologies and content.
- Audiences鈥斺�淲e need to also understand audiences and makers and how we as individuals are participants in this whole mix,鈥� says Fry. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not passive; we鈥檙e very active, in fact.鈥�
- Media ecology鈥攗nderstanding how technologies develop and change and how they shape the content and our cultural environments.
- Media activism鈥斺�淚鈥檓 a real proponent of, when you have a full media-literacy tool kit and understanding on various levels, then you have an obligation to work for change in the communication environment.鈥�
