Media literacy and newspapers of record

Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Childhood Obesity Topics in UAE Newspapers and Popular Social Media Platforms, 2014-2017

The 2017 prevalence of obesity among children (age 5–17 years) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is 13.68%. Childhood obesity is one of the 10 top health priorities in the UAE. This study examines the quality, frequency, sources, scope and framing of childhood obesity in popular social media and three leading UAE newspapers from 2014 to 2017. During the review period, 152 newspaper articles fro...

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...

The role of media literacy in health literacy and Internet addiction among female postgraduate students

Internet addiction is prevalent among students who often do not have the desired level of health literacy. This study aimed to determine the role of media literacy in health literacy and Internet addiction. The statistical population of this study comprised of female graduate students in Tehran. 183 participants were selected using convenience sampling method. The participants responded to he...

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

a scientometric study of media literacy literature based on scopus record through 2011

the present research is an attempt to describe the quantity and quality of publication trends of media literacy based on scopus reports. the population under study was composed of 510 documents on media literacy published through 2011. the results were analyzed based on date of publication, type of document, language of the documents, source of publications, subject areas, authors and their aff...