Media Education Sans Frontiers：Common Challenges, Shared Solutions for China and Italy

　　Introduction
　　A Rationale and a Method for Media Education in Contemporary Society
　　1 Children and the media. Terms and conditions of a complex interaction
　　1.1 Educating in the network society
　　1.2 Children and media studies
　　1.3 Education and ICTs
　　2 A new paradigm of Media Education
　　2.1 The areas of study
　　2.2 The method: from action to reflection to action
　　3 Where do we go from now?
　　References
　　Learning by Messaging: Teenagers' Mobile Phones Writing as a Metalinguistic Practice
　　1 Toward informal media education: Young people's everyday use of new communication technologies as a learning device
　　2 Social perceptions towards language variations: purists vs. evolutionists
　　3 Communication technologies and everyday construction of culture: a phenomenological theoretical framework
　　4 Mobile phones in young people's everyday life
　　5 An ethnography of communication: the social and cultural dimensions of the SMS diffusion among Italian teenagers
　　5.1 Narratives from the field: the linguistic features of Italian short messages language
　　5.2 Processing a language: teenagers' metalinguistic work
　　6 Towards a sociolinguistic appraisal of SMS use: the social organization of text messaging
　　6.1 When transcribing "messages" becomes transcribing verbal interactions?
　　7 The conversational nature of short message exchanges
　　8 The emergency of a new temporality of writing: some conclusion-"
　　References
　　Media and Youth in Italy: What Changes in Process? A Picture of the Uses of
　　Television, Radio and Other Mass and New Media
　　1 Generation in the balance: A map of cultural styles and habits
　　2 What are youth's expressions?
　　3 Italian generations and technologies
　　4 The European situation
　　5 Reading: an increasing habit
　　Conclusion
　　References
　　Media Education with New Media: the e-learning Perspectiv
　　1 The ANICEC course
　　2 A Master's course in Media education
　　3 Participation in knowledge construction
　　4 The Moodle platform
　　References
　　Reading Education and Media Education
　　1 The problem of excluding/including the book in Media Education'"
　　2 Emergent literacy and reading centres
　　References
　　Media Education and Video Games: An Action-research Project with
　　Adolescents in an Out-of-school Educational Context
　　1 Introduction
　　2 Education, media cultures, and video games
　　3 Aims and methodology of the project
　　4 Inventagiochi: a video game-authoring software
　　5 Educational activities with the teenagers: work steps
　　5.1 Step 1 - Introduction and video game analysis (2-3 lessons)
　　5.2 Step 2 - "Paper & pencil" creation and design (3-4 lessons)
　　5.3 Step 3 - Video game production throughInventagiochi (3-4 lessons)
　　5.4 Step 4 - Testing (1-2 lessons)
　　6 Towards a "video game literacy" (...instead of a Conclusion)
　　References
　　The Associations for Media Education: The Italian and International
　　Experience
　　1 Education needs Media Education today
　　2 ME needs competent and motivated Media Educators effectively
　　3 The Associations of Media Educators
　　3.1 Association for Media Literacy (AML) in Canada (www.aml.org)..
　　3.2 CLEMI: Centre for liaison between teaching and information media (www.clemi.org)
　　3.3 MED: Italian Association for Media Education (www.medmediaeducation.it)
　　References
　　Children and Television: The Role of Public Service Broadcasting in a Media
　　Education Perspective
　　1 Public Service Broadcasting for Children
　　2 RAI3 programs for Children and Youth
　　3 The experience of RAI3 Gt Ragazzi (News for Children)
　　4 Network strategies for the study of the quality of the television for the children
　　Youngsters and the Media in Italy
　　Digital Competence Assessment in Secondary Education
　　1 Introduction
　　2 A literature review on digital literacy/competence and similar terms
　　3 A multidimensional framework for digital competence
　　4 Assessing digital competence
　　4.1 The instant DCA
　　4.2 The situated and projective DCA
　　5 Conclusion
　　References
　　New Media Education and Youth Subculture
　　1 Cultural consumption way of youth under new media environment
　　2 The emergence and evolution of youth subculture
　　3 How to lead the youth subculture with new media education
　　References
　　A Study on Children's Media Literacy Education
　　Part 1 Reviews and Issues
　　1 Media literacy and media literacy education
　　2 Development of media literacy in different countries
　　2.1 Development of media literacy education overseas
　　2.2 Media literacy education development in china
　　3 Issues
　　3.1 Study limits of Mainland China
　　3.2 Goals of study
　　3.3 Significance
　　Part 2 Survey on Children and Teachers Media Literacy
　　Sector 1 Survey on Children Media Literacy
　　1 Study methods
　　1.1 Subjects
　　1.2 Instruments
　　1.3 Data processing
　　2 Results
　　2.1 TV literacy state of primary school pupils
　　2.2 Comparison of TV literacy with different grades
　　2.3 Comparison of TV literacy with different genders
　　2.4 Comparison of TV literacy with different fathers educationbackgrounds
　　2.5 Comparison of TV literacy with different mothers' educationbackgrounds
　　2.6 Comparison of TV literacy with different watching times
　　3 Conclusions
　　Sector 2 Survey on Teachers Media Literacy
　　1 Study methods
　　1.1 Subjects
　　1.2 Instrument
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　　This volume collects the papers presented at the China-Italy Symposium on Youth Learning and the Media，hosted by College of Education；Sponsored by Dr.Winter Foundation，Germany，Seeco Human Resources Ltd.during March 27-28,2008.For two days scholars and media professionals confronted each other about the complex relationship between media，children and learning processes.