Introduction: Digital Media and Community Literacy

Perspectives on Media Literacy, Digital Literacy and Information Literacy

The cultural landscape poses different challenges for teachers. Beyond developing reading and writing skills, it is necessary to emerge in the digital culture and master the different codes of different languages. In this context, media education studies discuss the educational possibilities of interpreting, problematizing, and producing different kinds of texts in critical and creative ways, t...

Introduction Digital Media, Communication & Power in Summary

The genre of the essay, as Hesse (1998) reminds us, may be traced back to the artistry of Montaigne. At that time, expository discourse was first a matter of composition by quill and ink, blotter, messy drafting and re-copying. A genre of an information communication technology (ICT), the essay was invaluable in the positing of argument and the demarcation of its disposition. It enabled ideas t...

Guidelines for Media Literacy Interventions in the Digital Age*

ing creating abrief, clear, and accuratedescription capturing theessence of a message in asmaller number of wordsthan the message itself Abstracted from Potter (2008)ed from Potter (2008) Guidelines for Media Literacy Interventions in the Digital Age 29Smjernice za posredovanje u koristmedijske pismenosti u digitalnom dobu

Media literacy and media bias: Are media literacy students less susceptible to non-verbal judgment biases?

Health literacy and children: introduction.

In the setting of increased interest in health literacy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) convened a national conference on health literacy and pediatrics in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2008: “A Health-Literate America: Where Do Children Fit In?” The purpose of the conference was to examine health literacy related issues, problems, and opportunities with reference to children and chi...