Affiliation:
1. University of Georgia, USA
Abstract
This chapter reports on a multi-year project that the author conducted using a children's picture book titled The Tantrum that Saved the World. Published in 2017 by World Saving Books, the e-version with its 64 colorfully illustrated pages tells of a little girl who stares down a pending climate crisis by channeling her tantrum power into strategies for saving the world. In the first study, the storybook's words and illustrations were analyzed using a Foucauldian genealogy to show how power circulates and why acquiring only that knowledge stops short of what a critical media literacy (CML) filter might reveal. Two additional studies, one focused on an analysis of critical literacy outside its comfort zone, and the other, a critical post-humanist analysis of digital remixing in a licensed Creative Commons website provided a basis for connecting the multi-year project to the research literature on digital citizenship and ethics.
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