Journalism As Model for Civic and Information Literacies
Cognition and Instruction ISSN: 0737-0008 (Print) 1532-690X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hcgi20 Journalism as Model for Civic and Information Literacies Natalia Smirnov, Gulnaz Saiyed, Matthew W. Easterday & Wan Shun Eva Lam To cite this article: Natalia Smirnov, Gulnaz Saiyed, Matthew W. Easterday & Wan Shun Eva Lam (2017): Journalism as Model for Civic and Information Literacies, Cognition and Instruction To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/07370008.2017.1392964 Published online: 21 Dec 2017. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=hcgi20 Download by: [207.229.172.148] Date: 21 December 2017, At: 11:08 COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION ,VOL.,NO.,– https://doi.org/./.. Journalism as Model for Civic and Information Literacies Natalia Smirnov, Gulnaz Saiyed, Matthew W. Easterday, and Wan Shun Eva Lam Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Journalism can serve as a generative disciplinary context for developing journalism; participatory civic and information literacies needed to meaningfully participate in an politics; connected civics; increasingly networked and mediated public sphere. Using interviews with civic literacies; information journalists, we developed a cognitive task analysis model, identifying an itera- literacies; cognitive task analysis; design-based tive sequence of production and domain-specific cognitive constructs of jour- research nalism expertise. We diagnose common discrepancies between professional practices and typical youth journalism pedagogies, and offer suggestions for teaching participatory politics and civic literacies through journalism. Journalism as model for civic and information literacies Recent technological developments have altered the nature of both literacy and citizenship (Hobbs, 2010; Jenkins, 2009).
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