ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the major enterprise in a media literacy course for secondary English education students, part of a three-course summer block that also included "Adolescent Literature" and "Literacy and Secondary English Teaching Methods I." Using hypermedia technology students can produce and share texts that challenge dominant representations, create oppositional and resistant readings, and exercise authority over texts. The reader of the hypermedia selects the links he or she will follow in the series of interlinked windows. The classroom experiences of the adolescent literature and secondary English methods courses thus included the reading of "text sets", the participation in reading and literature circles, and the use of writing workshops. Intermediality and critical media literacy can encourage teachers, students, and all citizens to examine texts and issues related to politics and power, identity and representation, freedom and community, and justice and equality.
