What is Media Literacy

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Ability to critically assess the accuracy and validity of information transmitted by the mass media (press, television, radio, and the internet) and to produce information via any medium. Learn more in: Prison Blogs, a Place of Freedom Behind Bars: Notes From a Workshop at the Barcelona Youth Detention Centre

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Also known as Media Education, this is the ability to realise the importance that all kinds of media have in our lives. It includes among others the understanding that media show a representation of reality. Learn more in: How to Use Parody and Humour to Teach Digital Literacy

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Media Literacy refers to one’s ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of formats. Learn more in: Media Literacy in the Digital Age: Literacy Projects and Organizations

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Media literacy is “To decode, evaluate, analyze and produce both print and electronic media” (Aufderheide, 1993, p.1). Learn more in: Considering Dimensions of the Digital Divide

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The ability to critically assess information, originating from different types of media, including the Web. Learn more in: Borderline Fields of Information Architecture: Information Overload, the Literacies, and Personal Information Management

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The experience of reading texts and designing hypertexts made possible by technology ( Hobbs, 2007 ). Learn more in: Multimodal Literacy

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Includes the ability to access, analyze, and produce media in various forms. Learn more in: Building Media Literacy in Higher Education: Department Approaches, Undergraduate Certificate, and Engaged Scholarship

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Understanding how to use today’s technology, that is, how to operate equipment, use various software, navigate the Internet, discriminate sources, and so forth. Learn more in: Digital Divide

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The ability to evaluate information from the media. Learn more in: Information Literacy

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The ability to access, utilize, and create information from a critical analytic perspective and via a diversity of communicative means, such as television, online discussion, blog, and email. Learn more in: Educating English Language Learners for Success in the 21st Century: Facilitating Their Acquisition of Multiliteracies

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A 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy. Learn more in: Transforming Digital Literacy with Culturally Diverse, Personalized Learning

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The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of forms. It is interdisciplinary by nature. Media literacy represents a necessary, inevitable, and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic environment and communication cornucopia that surround us (NAMLE, 2014, media literacy defined). Learn more in: Using Media Literacy to Teach and Learn the English Language Arts/Literacy: Common Core State Standards

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Ability to decode, evaluate, analyze and produce both print and electronic media. Learn more in: The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

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Ability to access, evaluate and create content effectively and responsibly via different media types. Learn more in: A Psychological Perspective on Mobile Learning

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An associated cluster of skills that allow media audiences and consumers to access, analyze, evaluate, produce, and act upon the messages they encounter. Learn more in: Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments: An Introduction

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Critical evaluation of media messages is an enhancement that requires the ability to interrogate, analyze, and communicate various features to others. Learn more in: An Introduction to Media Literacy

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The ability to critically understand and evaluate different forms of media and understand their cultural and communicative elements. Learn more in: Teaching Media Literacy From a Cultural Studies Perspective

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Understanding why the media (newspapers, magazines, radio, and television) is important in a democratic society, how it functions, and how to use it to become a more informed citizen. Learn more in: #Trump #Fakenews #Notmypresident: Assessing First-Time Voters of Color

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Ability to analyze and synthesize mediated messages. Learn more in: Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong: Teaching the Importance of Libel Law and Media Literacy in a Single Class Session

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Media literacy is defined as the competencies of reaching messages of different forms, analyzing these messages, evaluating them and delivering them. Learn more in: Digital Media Literacy: In-Depth Interview With the Parents of the Students Who Use Digital Media

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Media literacy is about teaching critical media management strategies, including ICTs. Learn more in: Communication Media and Digital Literacy as Intervention Tools in Prisons: The Case in Spain

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The ability to understand how mass media work, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. Learn more in: Citizen Education and Technology

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Ability to decode, evaluate, analyze, and produce both print and electronic media. Learn more in: Social Aspects of Digital Literacy

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The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate via a range of mediums in both print and non-print forms including: words, images, sounds, and multimedia. Learn more in: Learning to Teach the Media: Pre-Service Teachers Articulate the Value of Media Literacy Education

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The ability to access, evaluate, analyze, and communicate information in a variety of forms. Learn more in: The Freedom of Critical Thinking: Examining Efforts to Teach American News Literacy Principles in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Malaysia

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Media literacy is the ability to assess and deconstruct the meaning of the messages conveyed in media. Learn more in: Cognitive Approach to Improve Media Literacy: Mind Puzzles

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Ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media content on all analog and digital media, including television, movies, radio, music, media, Internet and all kinds of digital technology designed for communication. Learn more in: Media Literacy, Co-Innovation, and Productivity: Examples from European Countries

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The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. Learn more in: Social Media and Children

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The ability to use media properly with sufficient knowledge, skill, and moral conscience. Learn more in: Comprehensive Internet Youth Protection Policies by Private Organizations and Effectiveness Verification: Efforts by Japan Internet Safety Promotion Association