Periodic Reporting for period 1 - INCLUDED (Intercultural Digital Media Education for Social Inclusion of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Youth in the Urban Migration Society)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2019-08-01 do 2021-07-31
INCLUDED was designed as a participatory action research and aimed at the development and implementation of teaching modules for improving the intercultural media literacy skills of the students based on their specific needs. These teaching modules are developed in collaboration with the teachers and the students and are freely available online.
Publications:
Published papers:
Bozdağ, Ç., Neag, A., & Leurs, K. (2022). Editorial Introduction: Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies. Media and Communication, 10(4), 248-255. (Open access). https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.6625
Bozdağ, Ç. (2022). Inclusive Media Education in the Diverse Classroom: A Participatory Action Research in Germany. Media and Communication, 10(4), 305-316. (Open access). https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5640
Leurs, K.; Bozdag, C.; Neag, A; Sprenger, S. (2024). Participatory action research and media literacy. Toward engaged, accountable, and collaborative knowledge production with marginalized communities. In P. Fastrez and N. Landry (Eds.) Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook, (pp. 62-79). Taylor and Francis.
Neag, A., Bozdağ, Ç., & Leurs, K. (2022, July 18). Media literacy education for diverse societies. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.1268
Edited special issue:
Bozdag, C., Neag, A. and Leurs, K. (Eds.) (2022) Special Issue “Inclusive Media Education” published in Media and Communication (SSCI), 10(4).
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/328
To be published in 2024:
Bozdag, Cigdem (2024): Digital inclusion through distribution of iPads during the Covid-19 pandemic? A participatory action research in a German secondary school. In: Carmi, Elinor & Yates, Simeon (Eds). Digital Inclusion. International Policy and Research. Pp. 124-139. Palgrave Publishing. Open Access.
Bozdag, Cigdem; Karakasoglu, Yasemin (under review). Multilingual media repertoires of young people in the migration society. A discussion on media education. Global Studies of Childhood.
Outreach activities
Podcast Series “Let´s Talk about Media and Communication”
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/wp/lta/embracing-diversity-media-education-for-culturally-diverse-students
Article in Digitales Deutschland
“Kompetenzen für digitale Teilhabe in einer diversen Gesellschaft”
https://digid.jff.de/magazin/diversitaet/kompetenzen-digitale-teilhabe/
Events
International Workshop “Inclusive Media Education for Diverse Societies” organized by Cigdem Bozdag, Annamaria Neag, Koen Leurs and Alex Smit, 11. and 12. November 2021, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Employing a participatory action research design, the project aimed to empower young people by enhancing their digital literacy. Collaboratively developed learning scenarios with teachers and students included student-centered methods, encouraging experimentation with media, production of digital content, and critical reflection on their roles in the digital society. Consequently, the project had a positive impact on the digital literacy of the participating youth. Teaching resources created during the project were further developed in collaboration with Thomas Kieckbusch (Stabstelle Digitalisierung, Bremen) and are accessible online, making the results applicable to other educators working on media education in diverse classrooms.
In terms of conceptual contributions, the project enriched the field of media education by incorporating perspectives from intercultural education. It specifically focused on transnational and multilingual media use among young people (see Bozdag & Karakasoglu, 2024), addressing how these repertoires can be integrated into the school context. In collaboration with Annamaria Neag and Koen Leurs, and drawing on experiences from the INCLUDED research field, the researcher played a key role in developing a conceptual framework and critical approach for inclusive media education in diverse societies (see Bozdag, 2022; Bozdag, Neag, Leurs; Neag, Bozdag, Leurs, 2022). The collaborative efforts of the three researchers significantly increased the visibility of discussions surrounding inclusivity and diversity within the realm of media literacy and education.
Furthermore, the researcher contributed to methodological discussions in the field by emphasizing the importance of adopting qualitative and participatory approaches for media literacy research and education (see to Leurs, Bozdag, Neag, and Sprenger, 2024).