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ELSPA - Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association WordReference Apprendere con le tecnologie Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Cortoons Association for Media Literacy I was once asked what novel I would recommend for a media studies high school course. My immediate reaction was, “Why would you put a novel on the course at all? There are novels studied in every other English course. Use the media course to study literature other than novels, like movies, TV commercials, messaging, websites!” The teacher would not accept that response. I couldn’t talk him out of a novel. This brings me to Homeland, by Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow is a novelist in the same activist tradition as were Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain. Homeland is that kind of novel. And don’t let the Young Adult label prejudice you. Doctorow is billed as a science fiction writer, but his is not the science fiction of aliens from Mars. And that plausibility is its gift. Much to his credit, Cory Doctorow does not present the safe, Hollywood-style plot where the hero and villain meet in the obligatory scene, the villain either recanting her evil actions or dying ignominiously.

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