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In the United States, media education is a slippery and vague business — an idea struggling to become a legitimate field of study, practice and public concern. The United States is one of the few industrialized nations left to embrace media education policy on any systemic level1 (Bazalgette, Bevoret & Savino, eds., 1992) while it is the largest producer of media in the world, thus it is troubling that this discussion refuses to happen in any sort of engaged and rigorous way.
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Phillips, M. (2001). Media Education in the United States: A Check Under the Gestalt Hood. In: Aufenanger, S., Schulz-Zander, R., Spanhel, D. (eds) Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 1. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-97494-5_3
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