Media Education in the United States: A Check Under the Gestalt Hood

Abstract

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.