Shannon Burth

Doctoral Advisor: Srivi Ramasubramanian

Areas of Research:
Media literacy, DEIA representation, scholar activism, and entertainment media

Education:
M.A., Media Studies, Syracuse University, 2023
B.A., Communication, State University of New York at Geneseo, 2020

Presentations:

Santia, M., de Carvalho, R., Burth, S., & Ramasubramanian, S. (August, 2024). Indigenous Peoples’ Day or Columbus Day? A Qualitative Analysis of Contested News Narratives. AEJMC, Philadelphia, PA, August 2024.

Ramasubramanian, S., Burth, S., McMillian, M., Bhatti, S. J., Riles, J. M, Behm-Morawitz, E., Yin, M. (June, 2024). The Role of Media Literacy & Identities in Youth Civic Engagement and Media Activism. International Communication Association, Gold Coast

Bowman, N. D., Lee, Y. E., Ramasubramanian, S., Burth, S. (June, 2024) Exploring Audience Responses to Outdated Cultural Depictions Labels on Older Entertainment Media: A Mixed Methods Study. International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 

Burth, S. & Lee, Y. E. (April, 2024). The Role of Critical Media Literacy and Identity on Audience Responses to Outdated Cultural Depiction Labels on Older Entertainment Media. RIT Student Research in Communication Conference, Rochester, NY. [Top Poster Award]

Burth, S. (November, 2023) Panelist. DEI and Media Literacy, National Communication. Association, National Harbor, MD.

Ramasubramanian, S., Baker, E., Burth, S., Bhatti, S. J., McKoy, K., Yin, M. (October, 2022). “Fostering the Future of Research within a Collaboratory for Data Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures and Transformation.” 3rd Annual Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. California State Oakland, CA.

Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Foster, B., Johnson, P., Tully, M., Mihailidis, P. & Ramasubramanian, S. (October, 2022). “The 6E’s of Media Literacy Impact: A Framework to Understand Differential Outcomes of Media Literacy Practices.” 3rd Annual Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Oakland, CA.

Publications:

Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., Foster, B., Johnson, P., Mihailidis, P. & Tully, M. (2024). “Mapping Media Literacy Impact: A Review of Literature and Call for Equity.” Annals of the International Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2024.2354357 

Foster, B., Mihailidis, P., Johnson, P. R., Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Tully M., & Ramasubramanian, S. (2024). Designing equitable media literacy interventions for critical youth agency. Global Studies of Childhood, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231208445

Johnson, P. R., Tully M., Foster, B., Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Mihailidis, P., & Ramasubramanian, S. (2024, forthcoming). Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field. Communication, Culture, & Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae023

Book chapters:

Ramasubramanian, S., Burth, S., & Johnson, P. R. Media Literacy Education. In E. Scharrer (Ed.). Children, Media, and Technology: Access, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Routledge. (in press).

Ramasubramanian, S., Scharrer, E. & Burth, S. (in press). Doing research on media psychology and social justice. In K. Dill-Shackleford & N. Bowman (Eds.)., Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology (2nd edition); Oxford University Press.

Ramasubramanian, S., Burth S. & McMillian, M. (in press). Data Justice: The Role of Data in Media and Social Justice. In S. Ramasubramanian & O. O. Banjo (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Media & Social Justice. Oxford University Press.

Bio:

Shannon Burth is a critical, mixed-method scholar with research interests that include media literacy, DEIA, representation, scholar-activism and entertainment media. In her research, she seeks to point out inequalities, misrepresentation and perpetuation of stereotypes, while also identifying pathways to improve imbalances of power and oppressions.

She is a member of the CODE^SHIFT (Collaboratory for Data Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures, and Transformation) team, which is a multidisciplinary “collaboratory” research lab space for communication and data justice. She is also a part of the Mapping Impactful Media Literacy team, which explores how impact and equity are understood and applied in media literacy practice and research.