An on-going, action-research project that explores the potential of critical media literacy for the practice of democratic citizenship among immigrant, working-class Latina young women in North Carolina. I received a Chapman Family Faculty Fellowship from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to do fieldwork in the fall of 2002.
Brown, J., Schaffer, R., Vargas, L., and Romocki, L.S.,
Popular Media Culture and the Promise of Critical Media Literacy.
In Handbook of Youth Development, edited by Hamilton S. and Hamilton, M.A., Sage Publications (forthcoming).
Vargas, L., & dePyssler, B. (1998).
Using media literacy to explore stereotypes of Mexican immigrants.
Social Education 62(7), 407-412.
Vargas, L. (July 21–26, 2002). Transnationalism and media literacy. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research. Barcelona, Spain.
Vargas, L. (March 13, 2002). Transnational media literacy for democratic citizenship. Paper presented at the conference Creating the Transnational South. University Center for International Studies. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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