· 2018· Book chapter
Media Literacy: From a Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy
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Short summary
Media literacy empowers individuals to critically decode, evaluate, analyze, and produce print and electronic media, fostering autonomy in media engagement.
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Key points
- Media literacy involves decoding, evaluating, analyzing, and producing both print and electronic media.
- The fundamental goal of media literacy is to achieve critical autonomy in relation to all media.
- Applications of media literacy include informed citizenship, aesthetic appreciation, social advocacy, self-esteem, and consumer competence.
- Media literacy can be used to understand media economics and the social construction of public knowledge.
- Media literacy education is developing in the US, drawing on international models.
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Abstract
A media literate person— and everyone should have the opportunity to become one— can decode, evaluate, analyze, and produce both print and electronic media. The fundamental objective of media literacy is critical autonomy in relationship to all media. Emphases in media literacy training range widely, including informed citizenship, aesthetic appreciation and expression, social advocacy, self-esteem, and consumer competence. Some may use media literacy as a vehicle to understand the economic infrastructure of mass media, as a key element in the social construction of public knowledge. It is ironic and also understandable that the United States is the premier producer of international mass media, but that media literacy education is only beginning in this country. In Ontario, Canada, teachers built on English and Australian media literacy programs and practices, as well as on academic work in cultural studies. Germany’s media education is beset with the usual limitations of a voluntary program, including poor teacher preparedness.
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
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