ABSTRACT
Media play a vital role in young people’s development of their identities and civic allegiances, apart from what takes place in schools. Given media’s impact within and outside traditional educational spaces, one should examine media to better, more holistically understand how students learn to live together and develop civic identities and allegiances. This chapter first explores theoretically how people learn through and engage with media. Next, it considers ways in which media can impact civic identities and allegiances. It considers how media is impacted by ideologies and structures of civilisation, nationalism, globalisation, localism, and reflect these ideologies in turn. The chapter then discusses common ways of responding to media in education in light of media’s impact. Critical media literacy education is examined and reflected upon.
