Renee Hobbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 288512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renee Hobbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renee |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobbs |
| SIGNATURE | HOBBS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7976-7172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Media literacy education and teacher confidence in addressing violent extremism
Political polarization and online extremism pose new challenges for educators committed to peace education, yet little is known about how teachers build the confidence to use media literacy education (MLE) to address them. This mixed-method longitudinal case study followed 54 K– 12 and college educators (who collectively reached over 10,000 students) across three waves of data collection spanning the nine months after a 10-hour professional devel…
Measuring the implementation of media literacy instructional practices in schools
Interest in media literacy education is increasing across the United States and around the world but little is still known about the prevalence of various instructional practices used to implement it in elementary and secondary schools. Surveys and semi-structured interviews with a statewide quota sample of education stakeholders included school leaders, educators, librarians, elected public officials, parents, and members of the community in all…
ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
The ESC Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical knowledge and the evidence available at the time of their publication. The ESC is not responsible in the event of any contradiction, discrepancy and/or ambiguity between the ESC Guidelines and any other official recommendations or guidelines issued by the relevant public health authorities, in particular in relation to goo…
Reflections of an Integrated Maternal-Child Health Medical Student Assignment
Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization
In this commentary, the author considers the rise of algorithmic personalization and the power of propaganda as they shift the dynamic landscape of 21st‐century literacy research and practice. Algorithmic personalization uses data from the behaviors, beliefs, interests, and emotions of the target audience to provide filtered digital content, targeted advertising, and differential product pricing to online users. As persuasive genres, advertising …
The Library Screen Scene
Throughout life, people use film, videos, and media for entertainment and learning. In an increasing number of school, public, and academic libraries, people get opportunities to screen and discuss movies, make short animations, learn to edit videos, and develop a sense of community and civic engagement through shared media experiences. Through innovative programs, services, and collections, libraries are helping people acquire film and media lit…
Design Features of a Professional Development Program in Digital Literacy
The authors introduce readers to three design features of the University of Rhode Island's Summer Institute in Digital Literacy, a 42‐hour, weeklong professional learning experience in digital literacy for educators, librarians, college faculty, and other adult learners. The program is explicitly designed to promote reflection on one's motivations for advancing digital literacy, deepen appreciation for collaborative inquiry, and focus on how educ…
The use of social media and popular culture to advance cross-cultural understanding
Although we live in a global society, educators face many challenges in finding meaningful ways to connect students to people of other cultures. This paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding. In a close analysis of a single learning activity, we found that children had opportunities to…
Media Literacy
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Please check back later for the full article. The concept of media literacy has been circulating in the United States and Europe since the beginning of the 20th century as a means to acknowledge the set of knowledge, skills, and habits of mind required for full participation in a contemporary media-saturated society. The concept continues to …
Literacy
Literacy is a complex constellation of cognitive, social, and affective competencies that involve the use of symbol systems for expressing and sharing knowledge and ideas, information and experiences. The concept of literacy has changed over 3,000 years, from its original formulation rooted in oral rhetoric and persuasion to a focus on the ability to read written and typeset print, and gradually moving to include the ability to write in a variety…
European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
No abstract available.
School librarians as stakeholders in the children and media community
To examine how teacher-librarians perceive the work of researchers in children and media and the relationship between JOCAM’s core audience and school librarianship, Renee Hobbs and Joyce Valenza share their thoughts about the future of research and practice in the field of children and media in the form of a dialogue. After discussing librarians’ perceptions of the children and media research community, we explore the relationship between resear…
Everyone Learns From Everyone
Hobbs and Coiro describe a new approach to the professional development of educators, librarians, and media professionals that emphasizes the value of collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships. The authors explore why creative collaboration using digital media texts, tools, and technologies is vital to support the professional development of educators. Creative collaboration experiences generate personally meaningful, transformative learning…
How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age
Young people are making active use of the Internet in ways that may or may not contribute to civic engagement. Whereas some scholars believe that civic engagement arises naturally from digital media use, others believe that media literacy education is needed to provide the cognitive and social scaffolding that systematically supports civic engagement. Research with a sample of 400 American high school students explores the relationship between pa…
YouTube pranking across cultures
Online pranking videos are common online and popular among middle-school students, teens and young adults. When we examined 200 YouTube examples of the Scary Maze Game prank, we explored the relationship between perpetrator, victim and witness, finding that while American children under age 12 were commonly featured as victims in Scary Maze Game prank videos, only rarely were German children represented as victims. U.S. videos also lingered on th…
Pedagogical Media Competencies of Preservice Teachers in Germany and the United States
Teachers need knowledge and skills to make effective use of the growing variety of media and technology texts and tools available for use in elementary and secondary education. For this reason, pedagogical media competencies are highly relevant for teachers’ professional development. The theory of media pedagogical competencies is first defined and then located in the context of the relevant scholarly literature from both Germany and the United S…
European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012)
C-reactive protein CURE Clopidogrel in Unstable Angina to Prevent Recurrent Events CVD cardiovascular disease DALYs disability-adjusted life years DBP diastolic blood
African-American Children's Active Reasoning about Media Texts as a Precursor to Media Literacy in the United States
A study of 156 children ages 9–11 was conducted to examine potential differences in media use between high-achieving, gifted African-American children enrolled in a special program and those enrolled in a regular education program in a large urban city in the United States. Both high-achievers and regular students report living in highly saturated media home environments with little parental involvement in their heavy media use. This study uses a…
Media literacy and media bias
The phenomenon of nonverbal (NV) media bias has been established and investigated in recent studies. A series of controlled experiments demonstrated that the friendly or hostile NV behavior of a TV interviewer in a short political interview can systematically influence viewers’ impressions of the interviewed politician and their attributions about the interviewee. Consistent media bias effects emerged in a series of independent samples in four co…
The Power of Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Research Article| September 01 2009 The Power of Fair Use for Media Literacy Education Renee Hobbs Renee Hobbs RENEE HOBBS is a professor of Communication at Temple University's School of Communications and Theater in Philadelphia, where she founded the Media Education Lab (www.mediaeducationlab.com). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2009) 37 (2): 15–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2009.37.2.15…
The State of Media Literacy Education
Journal Article The State of Media Literacy Education Get access Renee Hobbs Renee Hobbs 1Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 865–871, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03027.x Published: 06 February 2006
A Review of School-Based Initiatives in Media Literacy Education
When teachers use videos, films, Web sites, popular music, newspapers, and magazines in the K-12 classroom or when they involve students in creating media productions using video cameras or computers, they may aim to motivate students’interest in the subject, build communication and critical-thinking skills, encourage political activism, or promote personal and social development. This article reviews teachers’motivations for implementing media l…
Salon de la Rose + Croix
Redon, Odilon
Measuring the acquisition of media‐literacy skills
S Students who participated in a required yearlong Grade 11 English media/communication course that incorporated extensive critical media analysis of print, audio, and visual texts were compared with students from a demographically matched group who received no instruction in critically analyzing media messages. A nonequivalent group's design examinedstudents' reading comprehension, writing skills, critical reading, critical listening, and critic…
Measuring the acquisition of media‐literacy skills
S Students who participated in a required yearlong Grade 11 English media/communication course that incorporated extensive critical media analysis of print, audio, and visual texts were compared with students from a demographically matched group who received no instruction in critically analyzing media messages. A nonequivalent group's design examinedstudents' reading comprehension, writing skills, critical reading, critical listening, and critic…
Propaganda in an Age of Algorithmic Personalization
In this commentary, the author considers the rise of algorithmic personalization and the power of propaganda as they shift the dynamic landscape of 21st‐century literacy research and practice. Algorithmic personalization uses data from the behaviors, beliefs, interests, and emotions of the target audience to provide filtered digital content, targeted advertising, and differential product pricing to online users. As persuasive genres, advertising …
The use of social media and popular culture to advance cross-cultural understanding
Although we live in a global society, educators face many challenges in finding meaningful ways to connect students to people of other cultures. This paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding. In a close analysis of a single learning activity, we found that children had opportunities to…
A Review of School-Based Initiatives in Media Literacy Education
When teachers use videos, films, Web sites, popular music, newspapers, and magazines in the K-12 classroom or when they involve students in creating media productions using video cameras or computers, they may aim to motivate students’interest in the subject, build communication and critical-thinking skills, encourage political activism, or promote personal and social development. This article reviews teachers’motivations for implementing media l…
Boltanski's visual archives
The Archive is a central but paradoxical image in the work of the con temporary French artist Christian Boltanski (born 1944). Because Boltanski is obsessively concerned with the death-like rupture and loss by which experience is continuously reduced to fragmentary and inac curate memories of the past, especially regarding the adult's perception of childhood, archives represent for him a potential means of regaining access to what has been lost a…
Cigarette smoking and bone mineral density in the elderly
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is associated with reduced bone mineral density in elderly men and women. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SUBJECTS: These comprised 224 men and 186 women aged 61-73 years, born and resident in East Hertfordshire. MEASUREMENTS: Lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) were determined by dual energy x ray absorptiometry. RESULTS: After adjusting for potential confounding variab…
Pedagogical Issues in U.S. Media Education
(1994). Pedagogical Issues in U.S. Media Education. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 17, Communication Yearbook 17, pp. 453-466
How First-Time Viewers Comprehend Editing Conventions
African tribal villagers having little familiarity with any mass media were able to comprehend a filmed narrative, even when it utilized a variety of “point of view” editing techniques
Pedagogical Issues in U.S. Media Education
(1994). Pedagogical Issues in U.S. Media Education. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 17, Communication Yearbook 17, pp. 453-466
Cigarette smoking and bone mineral density in the elderly
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is associated with reduced bone mineral density in elderly men and women. DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SUBJECTS: These comprised 224 men and 186 women aged 61-73 years, born and resident in East Hertfordshire. MEASUREMENTS: Lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) were determined by dual energy x ray absorptiometry. RESULTS: After adjusting for potential confounding variab…
The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement
Journal Article The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement Get access Renée Hobbs Renée Hobbs 1Babson College and Clark University's Hiatt Center for Urban Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 48, Issue 1, March 1998, Pages 16–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1998.tb02734.x Published: 07 February 2006
Boltanski's visual archives
The Archive is a central but paradoxical image in the work of the con temporary French artist Christian Boltanski (born 1944). Because Boltanski is obsessively concerned with the death-like rupture and loss by which experience is continuously reduced to fragmentary and inac curate memories of the past, especially regarding the adult's perception of childhood, archives represent for him a potential means of regaining access to what has been lost a…
Salon de la Rose + Croix
Redon, Odilon
Measuring the acquisition of media‐literacy skills
S Students who participated in a required yearlong Grade 11 English media/communication course that incorporated extensive critical media analysis of print, audio, and visual texts were compared with students from a demographically matched group who received no instruction in critically analyzing media messages. A nonequivalent group's design examinedstudents' reading comprehension, writing skills, critical reading, critical listening, and critic…
A Review of School-Based Initiatives in Media Literacy Education
When teachers use videos, films, Web sites, popular music, newspapers, and magazines in the K-12 classroom or when they involve students in creating media productions using video cameras or computers, they may aim to motivate students’interest in the subject, build communication and critical-thinking skills, encourage political activism, or promote personal and social development. This article reviews teachers’motivations for implementing media l…
The State of Media Literacy Education
Journal Article The State of Media Literacy Education Get access Renee Hobbs Renee Hobbs 1Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 865–871, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03027.x Published: 06 February 2006
The Power of Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Research Article| September 01 2009 The Power of Fair Use for Media Literacy Education Renee Hobbs Renee Hobbs RENEE HOBBS is a professor of Communication at Temple University's School of Communications and Theater in Philadelphia, where she founded the Media Education Lab (www.mediaeducationlab.com). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2009) 37 (2): 15–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2009.37.2.15…
European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012)
C-reactive protein CURE Clopidogrel in Unstable Angina to Prevent Recurrent Events CVD cardiovascular disease DALYs disability-adjusted life years DBP diastolic blood
African-American Children's Active Reasoning about Media Texts as a Precursor to Media Literacy in the United States
A study of 156 children ages 9–11 was conducted to examine potential differences in media use between high-achieving, gifted African-American children enrolled in a special program and those enrolled in a regular education program in a large urban city in the United States. Both high-achievers and regular students report living in highly saturated media home environments with little parental involvement in their heavy media use. This study uses a…
Media literacy and media bias
The phenomenon of nonverbal (NV) media bias has been established and investigated in recent studies. A series of controlled experiments demonstrated that the friendly or hostile NV behavior of a TV interviewer in a short political interview can systematically influence viewers’ impressions of the interviewed politician and their attributions about the interviewee. Consistent media bias effects emerged in a series of independent samples in four co…
How Media Literacy Supports Civic Engagement in a Digital Age
Young people are making active use of the Internet in ways that may or may not contribute to civic engagement. Whereas some scholars believe that civic engagement arises naturally from digital media use, others believe that media literacy education is needed to provide the cognitive and social scaffolding that systematically supports civic engagement. Research with a sample of 400 American high school students explores the relationship between pa…
YouTube pranking across cultures
Online pranking videos are common online and popular among middle-school students, teens and young adults. When we examined 200 YouTube examples of the Scary Maze Game prank, we explored the relationship between perpetrator, victim and witness, finding that while American children under age 12 were commonly featured as victims in Scary Maze Game prank videos, only rarely were German children represented as victims. U.S. videos also lingered on th…
Pedagogical Media Competencies of Preservice Teachers in Germany and the United States
Teachers need knowledge and skills to make effective use of the growing variety of media and technology texts and tools available for use in elementary and secondary education. For this reason, pedagogical media competencies are highly relevant for teachers’ professional development. The theory of media pedagogical competencies is first defined and then located in the context of the relevant scholarly literature from both Germany and the United S…
Media Literacy
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Please check back later for the full article. The concept of media literacy has been circulating in the United States and Europe since the beginning of the 20th century as a means to acknowledge the set of knowledge, skills, and habits of mind required for full participation in a contemporary media-saturated society. The concept continues to …
Literacy
Literacy is a complex constellation of cognitive, social, and affective competencies that involve the use of symbol systems for expressing and sharing knowledge and ideas, information and experiences. The concept of literacy has changed over 3,000 years, from its original formulation rooted in oral rhetoric and persuasion to a focus on the ability to read written and typeset print, and gradually moving to include the ability to write in a variety…
European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
No abstract available.
School librarians as stakeholders in the children and media community
To examine how teacher-librarians perceive the work of researchers in children and media and the relationship between JOCAM’s core audience and school librarianship, Renee Hobbs and Joyce Valenza share their thoughts about the future of research and practice in the field of children and media in the form of a dialogue. After discussing librarians’ perceptions of the children and media research community, we explore the relationship between resear…
Everyone Learns From Everyone
Hobbs and Coiro describe a new approach to the professional development of educators, librarians, and media professionals that emphasizes the value of collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships. The authors explore why creative collaboration using digital media texts, tools, and technologies is vital to support the professional development of educators. Creative collaboration experiences generate personally meaningful, transformative learning…
The use of social media and popular culture to advance cross-cultural understanding
Although we live in a global society, educators face many challenges in finding meaningful ways to connect students to people of other cultures. This paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding. In a close analysis of a single learning activity, we found that children had opportunities to…
The Library Screen Scene
Throughout life, people use film, videos, and media for entertainment and learning. In an increasing number of school, public, and academic libraries, people get opportunities to screen and discuss movies, make short animations, learn to edit videos, and develop a sense of community and civic engagement through shared media experiences. Through innovative programs, services, and collections, libraries are helping people acquire film and media lit…
Design Features of a Professional Development Program in Digital Literacy
The authors introduce readers to three design features of the University of Rhode Island's Summer Institute in Digital Literacy, a 42‐hour, weeklong professional learning experience in digital literacy for educators, librarians, college faculty, and other adult learners. The program is explicitly designed to promote reflection on one's motivations for advancing digital literacy, deepen appreciation for collaborative inquiry, and focus on how educ…
Sociology (20 works) · Pedagogy (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Literacy (13 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (13 works) · Media literacy (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (8 works)