Introduction: Navigating the Field of Media Education and Media Literacy through its Research Methods: Media Practices, Educational Initiatives, and Prescriptive Discourses

Part1: Media Practices

Chapter One: Documenting Media Practices to Define Media Literacy Competence: A Qualitative Approach

Chapter Two: Studying the Media Education Practices of Young Children at Home: Methodological Lessons from a Cross-national Qualitative Study on Digital Activities at Home

Chapter Three: Participatory Action Research and Media Literacy: Towards Engaged, Accountable, and Collaborative Knowledge Production with Marginalized Communities

Chapter Four: Observing Literacy Practices in the “Third Space”: Research Methods

Chapter Five: Researching Media Literacy Practices Using Both Critical and Posthuman Inquiry


Part2: Educational Initiatives

Chapter Six: Methodological Considerations in Researching Teachers’ Views and Practices of Media Literacy

Chapter Seven: A Research Methodology Aimed at Analyzing Teaching Practices in Relation to the Development of Digital Skills in a University Setting

Chapter Eight: Design-based Research into the Co-creation of Teaching Activities for the Theoretical Refinement of a Multimodal Media Literacy Competency Model

Chapter Nine: Quantitative Methods for Assessing Media Literacy in Evaluations of Health Promotion Intervention Programs Using Media Literacy Education

Chapter Ten: Issues of Pedagogy, Alignment, and Context in Assessing Measures of Media Literacy


Part3: Prescriptive Discourses

Chapter Eleven: Analyzing Public Policies on Media Education: From Modalization to Modeling of Official Discourses

Chapter Twelve: Analyzing School Curricula, Training Programs, and Learning Material: A Method in Media Education

Chapter Thirteen: Quick-Scan Analysis as a Method to Analyze and Compare Media Literacy Frameworks

Chapter Fourteen: Critical Discourse Studies for Research on Media and Information Literacy Projects: An Illustrated Discussion of Seven Methodological Considerations

Chapter Fifteen: Rethinking Media Education Policy Research and Advocacy: A Deliberative Approach