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The Necessity of Media Knowledge Education to Students to Promote their Media Literacy Competency

The paper designs an indigenous module to upgrade the media literacy among high school students utilizing the “multimedia education”, “the cultural studies”, the theory of “New London Group” and “the political media literacy” by Ferguson. The method used is in two categories, documentary and survey. The population comprises of the tenth and eleventh graders in the 2nd region of the ministry of ...

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

Social media: A path to health literacy

Social media - websites and other online tools called social networks - serve as a tool to connect people and organizations around topics of common interest. Social media platforms offer tremendous opportunity to engage quickly and sometimes in depth with many and diverse stakeholders as people have the ability to communicate back-and-forth from anywhere in the world. As increasing numbers of p...

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...

Unpacking New Media Literacy

The 21 century has marked an unprecedented advancement of new media. New media has become so pervasive that it has penetrated into every aspect of our society. New media literacy plays an essential role for any citizen to participate fully in the 21 century society. Researchers have documented that literacy has evolved historically from classic literacy (reading-writingunderstanding) to audiovi...