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An Introduction to Media Literacy

An Introduction to Media Literacy

Belgin Arslan-Cansever
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522540595|ISBN10: 1522540598|EISBN13: 9781522540601
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch003
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Arslan-Cansever, Belgin. "An Introduction to Media Literacy." Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments, edited by Jayne Cubbage, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 41-59. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch003

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Arslan-Cansever, B. (2018). An Introduction to Media Literacy. In J. Cubbage (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments (pp. 41-59). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch003

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Arslan-Cansever, Belgin. "An Introduction to Media Literacy." In Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments, edited by Jayne Cubbage, 41-59. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4059-5.ch003

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Abstract

In today's information society, the media have important functions in the formation of certain perceptions by regulating the social lives of individuals. This occurs through messages that come in different formats (verbally, audibly, visually etc.) from the media. It is through the media literacy that enables reading messages from the media and interpreting them critically. The aim of this chapter is to provide some theoretical perspectives on media literacy. In this context, media literacy has been explained in detail. For this, primarily the differences between reading-writing and literacy are revealed. Besides conceptual media literacy, its necessity and some examples of practices in the world related to its education are mentioned. The chapter also addresses the basic paradigms in media literacy.

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