title: Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
author:  David Buckingham 
description: David Buckingham takes the pulse of media education today,insightfully surveying the field, probing the debates andcontroversies, assessing out motives for teaching the media butleaving us a road map for map for the future. Covering bothanalysis and production, including the new digital technologies,this book is a must-have for the serious mediateacher.<br />
zlib_text: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
  
  Series Editors
  
  Eckhardt Fuchs
  
  Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig,
  Germany
  
  Felicitas Macgilchrist
  
  Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig,
  Germany
  
  Editorial Board
  
  Michael Apple
  
  University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
  
  Tânia Maria F. Braga Garcia
  
  Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
  
  Eric Bruillard
  
  ENS de Cachan, Cachan, France
  
  Nigel Harwood
  
  School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
  
  Heather Mendick
  
  Independent Scholar, London, UK
  
  Eugenia Roldán Vera
  
  Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  Neil Selwyn
  
  Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
  
  Yasemin Soysal
  
  University of Essex, Colchester, UK
  
  Managing Editor
  
  Wendy Anne Kopisch
  
  Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig,
  Germany
  
  There is no education without some form of media. Much cont