Monday 12 May 2025 at 13.25, Yellow Lecture Room, DMJX
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Media Literacy of Genocide, War and Colonialism
Professor Jad Melki will share his analysis of the international media coverage of the Gaza war, as seen from the Middle East. Jad Melki, associate professor at Lebanese American University, is an experienced reporter, journalism teacher and researcher, and a long time friend of DMJX.
Lecture time: 70 mins.
Melki lives and works in Beirut. He has recently published this book: Media Literacy of the Oppressed: An Emancipatory Pedagogy (Routledge). Read chapter 1 here: https://news.mediajungle.dk/files/2025/05/JadMelki-medialit-oppressed-First-chapter.pdf
The book provides alternative approaches to media literacy pedagogies for marginalized communities and people in postcolonial countries – especially in the Global South – tackling the unexplored issues of media literacy of war, terrorism, pandemics, infodemics, populism, colonialism, genocide, and intersectional feminism.
Biography: https://soas.lau.edu.lb/about/people/jad-melki.php
Jad Melki, Ph.D., is professor of journalism and media studies and director of the Institute of Media Research and Training at LAU. He is also a visiting faculty at the Salzburg Academy and an affiliated researcher at the University of Maryland.
Melki’s research is at the intersection of digital media literacy, journalism, war, gender and health communication. He won the 2020 Shoman Arab Researchers Award for his research on the impact of social media in the Arab World. Previously, Melki was founding director of Media Studies at the AUB and has taught at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Towson University.
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