"The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between critical media literacies, civic engagement, and immigrant youths' sense of belonging. The dissertation is a qualitative case study that asked: What identities do three immigrant and refugee youth in a multicultural studies class draw upon to enact critical media literacies within and beyond school? How do they do this? and What internal and external factors influence how a teacher supports his students' critical media literacies? How do these factors relate to the teacher's pedagogy? This dissertation's methodological approach and research questions were rooted in Mihailidis's 5A's of Media Literacy (2014) framework that conceptualizes approaches to media literacy in a continuum, moving from access to awareness, assessment, appreciation, and action. The dissertation draws on four main data sources: 1) one-on-one interviews with focal students and their teacher, 2) classroom observations, 3) teacher-produced curricular materials, and 4) student-produced artifacts." -- Abstract.
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