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Chapter 1: The language of literacies -- Lesson 1: Literacy and its many meanings -- Lesson 2: Digital age literacies -- Lesson 3: Civic literacies -- Chapter 2: Media and mass communications: definitions, histories, and directions -- Lesson 1: Communication: from interpersonal to mass communication -- Lesson 2: History of media and communications -- Lesson 3: Communications and mass communications -- Lesson 4: Media and society: framing relationships -- Chapter 3: Information explosion in the information society -- Lesson 1: The nature of information and the rise of the information society -- Lesson 2: The information explosion -- Lesson 3: Information literacy: a systematic response -- Chapter 4: The construction of media -- Lesson 1: Making meaning -- Lesson 2: Constructions and represetations -- Lesson 3: Codes and conventions -- Lesson 4: Genres -- Lesson 5: Formats -- Chapter 5: Construction audiences -- Lesson 1: The notion of the audience -- Lesson 2: Audience theories -- Lesson 3: Audience research -- Chapter 6: Making sense of meaning: values, lifestyles, and ideology in media -- Lesson 1: Making sense of media: frames of a story -- Lesson 2: Media and ideology -- Chapter 7: Media organizations and stakeholders -- Lesson 1: Media and profit: the market model -- Lesson 2: Service and accountability: the public sphere model -- Lesson 3: Regulation and oversight: the government and media.