Media Literacy, Journalist and Empowerment of Democracy

Critical Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Reconstruction of Education

The world we live in today is very different than the world that most of us remember from our childhood. The twenty-first century is a media saturated, technologically dependent, and globally connected world. However, most education in the United States has not kept up with advances in technology or educational research. In our global information society, it is insufficient to teach students to...

Promoting Health and Literacy for Women’s Empowerment

Female Literacy Rates, Information Technology and Democracy

The connections between female literacy rates, information technology and democracy are theoretically diverse and obscured by intervening economic and social factors. However, one should not overlook the important role of women’s education in the overall economic and political development of a country. This study focuses on the theoretical and statistical connections via a structured literature...

Measuring Effective Democracy The Human Empowerment Approach

Various categorizations have emerged to describe the growing number of ineffective democracies in the hybrid zone between blatant autocracy and fully effective democracy. Despite differences in terminology, scholars agree that state failure in the enforcement of rule of law is the key factor separating effective from ineffective democracies. Applying this distinction, categorical approaches pre...

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...