Ecomedia Literacy
Integrating Ecology into Media Education
Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education Series

This book offers a focused and practical guide to integrating the relationship between media and the environment?ecomedia?into media education. It enables media teachers to "green" their pedagogy by providing essential tools and approaches that can be applied in the classroom.

Media are essential features of our planetary ecosystem emergency, contributing to both the problem of and solution to climate chaos, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deforestation, water contamination, and so on. Offering a clear theoretical framework and suggested curriculum guide, the book provides key resources that will enable media educators to apply ecomedia concepts to their curricula. By reconceptualizing media education, this book connects ecology, environmental communication, ecomedia studies, environmental humanities, and ecoliteracy to bridge media literacy and education for sustainability.

Ecomedia Literacy is an essential read for educators and scholars in the areas of media literacy, media and communication, media and cultural studies, environmental humanities, and environmental studies.

Part I: Ecological Worldviews and the Ecomediasystem 1. Ecocultural Worldviews: Decolonizing Media Education 2. Environmental Ideology and Eco-Ethics 3. Disturbing the Ecomediasystem: Ecomedia Objects Part II: The Ecomediasphere 4. The Ecomediasphere 5. Ecomedia Footprint: Ecomateriality 6. Ecomedia Footprint: Lifeworld 7. Ecomedia Mindprint: Political Economy 8. Ecomedia Mindprint: Ecoculture Part III: Ecomedia Literacy 9. Ecomedia Pedagogy 10. Teaching Ecomedia Literacy 11. Conclusion: The 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Covid-19, and Black Lives Matter

Antonio Lopez is Associate Professor and Chair of the Media Studies and Communications Department at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.