A panorama of perspectives on media education and democracy in a digital age that draws upon projects in both the formal and non-formal education spheres, this collection contributes to conceptualizing and cultivating a more respectful, robust and critically-engaged democracy.

Foreword: Lasting Lessons Learned from the “Fake News” Crisis MIL as the 1st Curriculum  Divina Frau-Meigs Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis  Michael Hoechsmann, Gina Thésée and Paul R. Carr PART 1: Engaging the Community 1 Ubuntu: Innovation and Decolonization in Media and Communication Studies  Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede 2 Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace  Robyn M. Tierney 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education: The School as Sandbox for Democracy 2.0  María Rodríguez-Romero 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth: Shades of Democracy 2.0 from Finland  Mari Pienimäki and Sirkku Kotilainen 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe  Tafadzwa Rugoho 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education: A Powerful Amalgam for Today’s Radical Democracy  Sandra L. Cuervo Sanchez and Tania Goitandia Moore PART 2: Framing Media Literacy 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust: Critical Thinking and Critical Consciousness and the Biopolitics of the Emerging Media Citizen  Michael Forsman 8 Buying in to Participatory Culture?: Critical Media Literacy and Social Media  Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos, Elia Fernández-Diaz, Ignacio Haya Salmón and Adelina Calvo Salvador 9 Gaming Education: Learning about Climate Change through Digital Game-Based Teaching  Tania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo and José Gutiérrez-Pérez 10 Not without Us: A Feminist Pedagogy for Media Education 2.0  Aquilina Fueyo 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL: Or Can Social Media Foster Environmental Learning and Activism?  Ellen Field 12 The Social Media Landscape: Self-Simulation and Social Consequences  Maria Leena Korpijaakko PART 3: Transforming the Classroom 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy through Game-Making  Milena Droumeva and Jennifer Jenson 14 Post-Truth Explorers: Information Literacy vs. Fake News  María Luisa Zorrilla Abascal and Bruno Salvador Hernández Levi 15 Nine Key Insights: For a Robust and Holistic Critical News Media Literacy  Emil Marmol 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere: Blogging, Media Literacy 2.0, and 21st Century Pedagogy  Robert C. Williams 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity  Anna Renfors and Juha Suoranta 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker: Philosophical Engagement with New Media in the Classroom  Laura D’Olimpio Postscript: Bubbles and Baubles: Seeking Democracy 2.0 in a Post-Factual World  Roberto Aparici and David García-Marín Index