Pop Culture Literacies: Teaching Interpretation, Response, and Composition in a Digital World

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Mia Hood

Pop Culture Literacies

Teaching Interpretation, Response, and Composition in a Digital World

Mia Hood

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Routledge
30 April 2025

Primary & middle schools; Secondary schools; Teaching of a specific subject

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture—music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms—and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically.

Part One draws on qualitative research with young people, as well as close analyses of pop culture phenomena, to illustrate how young people already engage with pop culture, on- and offline. This research demonstrates that young people interpret and respond to pop culture texts in sophisticated ways and highlights the potential for supporting and challenging them to do so in ways that are even more active, critical, and strategic.

Part Two presents lessons that teach young people how to adopt intentional interpretive stances in relation to pop culture texts, identify and analyze hidden layers of story in these texts, and ultimately expand and refine their interpretations and responses. In the final chapter’s lessons, young people engage in a process of developing a multimodal autoethnography, a form of narrative composition that explores the connections between the personal and the cultural. The book provides options for teaching these lessons as standalone lessons, for enmeshing them in standards-aligned humanities curricula, and for teaching them in sequence as a unit of study.

This book is ideal for teachers who want to better understand how their students are engaging in and making sense of the pop culture texts that saturate the digital world and to help them reimagine who they are in and out of that world.

By: Mia Hood
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781032667041
ISBN 10: 1032667044
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Introduction Part One: Pop Culture Literacy Framework 1. Active Engagement 2. Critical Engagement 3. Strategic Engagement Part Two: Pop Culture Literacy Lessons 4. Foundations of Pop Culture Literacy 5. Layers of Story 6. Autoethnography Conclusion

Mia Hood is a curriculum designer, writing coach, and teacher educator based in New York. She has worked as a professor of literacy and secondary education at the City University of New York and a professor of professional writing at New York University. Mia received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, where she studied sociocultural and critical perspectives on literacy.