What is Media Literacy

Media literacy, by its widely accepted definition, is of various types (visual, auditory, printed, etc.) to be able to access media messages, to analyze and evaluate the accessed media from a critical point of view and to produce their own media messages. Learn more in: Media Literacy and Framing of Media Content

It refers to accessing, understanding, interpreting, analyzing and self-creating media content disseminated via mass communication channels. Learn more in: Case Study on Patient Groups on Facebook in Turkey: Through the Lens of Critical Health Literacy

It is the ability to critical analyze, evaluate, and transmit messages acquired through mass media. Learn more in: Film Literacy, Visual Culture, and Film Language

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

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

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

The collection of knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for engaging in ethical use of digital media for learning, creative expression and productive activity. Learn more in: User-Created Online Learning Videos: Collaborative Knowledge Construction Through Participatory Design

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

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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The skills and process necessary to access, understand, evaluate and create media. Often this is focused on news media though the concept applies to all forms of media. Learn more in: Innovation in Civic Education: Preparing Citizens for a Modern World

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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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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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In this chapter, the author uses the term “media literacy” to include the ability to perform effective internet searches, awareness and respect of intellectual property and copyright law, and the ability to identify the truthfulness of news. Media literacy includes news literacy and digital literacy skills. Learn more in: Tech-Savvy Is the New Street Smart: Balancing Protection and Awareness

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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 locate, evaluate, analyze, and draw conclusions from media sources, including the ability to discern bias, truth, and accuracy. Also includes ability to critically evaluate media messages for connotations of power and identity. Learn more in: Participatory Literacy and Taking Informed Action in the Social Studies

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Media creation and consumption is changing at a rapid pace. Someone who is “media literate” can adapt to new communication formats—whether that’s instant messaging, push notifications, wikis, online communities, blogs, or vlogs—and knows how to choose the most effective medium for communication in any given situation. Learn more in: Media Literacy Among College Students: A Study of Sivagangai District, India

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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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Like information literacy, but narrower in scope. Focus resides on critical assessment of facts or opinions founded through consumption of media (such as television, radio, podcasts, etc.). Learn more in: ‘Fake News' in the Context of Information Literacy: A Canadian Case Study

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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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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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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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The ability to evaluate information from the media. Learn more in: Information 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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The set of critical skills and competencies for media users or creators to be able to retrieve, analyze, evaluate, generate, and interpret all forms of messages. It involves understanding how messages are constructed, how they are variously experienced, how they have embedded points of view, and what the intentions of what their creators were, whether profit, power, or some other purpose. Learn more in: Ten Lessons for the Age of Disinformation

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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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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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An understanding of how media works and why media works the way it does. Learn more in: Is the News Cycle “Real”?: A Case Study of Media “Phandom” and Agenda Setting in Persona 5

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

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Effect of media education focused on the development of skills needed to access, analyze, evaluate and create media contents. Learn more in: Ageing and Health in the Digital Society: Challenges and Opportunities

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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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To be able to understand and interpret media messages, as well as to access different sources of information in order to obtain accurate information. At the same time, to understand the functioning of media institutions, working conditions and their place in the social system. Learn more in: An Argumentative Study on Digital Advertising Literacy

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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 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

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Media literacy or in broader term media information literacy (MIL) sometimes referred as information and media literacy is defined as ability to access, analyze, interpret, and create media contents in the limits of right of freedom in a democratic manner. Learn more in: Bridging the Gap With QR Codes: QR Codes for Enhancing Cyberculture in Istanbul

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Media Literacy comprises a set of skills including a person’s ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, reflect, and act in and with media. It is based on key concepts for media literacy that claim that media products are constructions (of reality) that are expressed in a unique, aesthetic form. The meaning of media products is created by the audience, and that media have commercial, ideological, social, political, and value implications. Learn more in: Fostering (Digital) Media Literacy Skills and Global Citizenship in the EFL Classroom: Digital Stories of Undocumented Youth

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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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