Sports are competitive, and mathematics is exam oriented and thus still competitive in nature. However, media literacy, in contrast, is an inherently unique and dynamic subject as it requires internal critical thinking as well as a need to be sensitive to external world reflections of media. Furthermore, media literacy involves being able to read media messages as well as being able to achieve ...

Introduction: Media literacy can be considered as strengthening media experiences. The media has a great impact on the health of people, including children. However, so far this issue has been understudied and scientific evidence is needed to make a decision.This study aimed to investigate roles of students’ media literacy on their health. Methods: This study is a literature review with system...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to design a model of media literacy education in high school. Methodology: Since this research seeks to design a model or theory derived from the heart of data, so the data theorizing method of the foundation was chosen. To achieve this goal, with the opinion of the specialized council of the Book of Thought and Media Literacy, a practical case study was consi...

Media literacy intervention efficacy literature has focused on media-relevant (e.g., knowledge and realism) and behavior-relevant outcomes (e.g., attitudes and behaviors), without much attention paid to interpersonal communication outcomes. This project examined interpersonal communication after participation in two versions (analysis plus analysis and analysis plus planning) of the Youth Messa...

Lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing rapid changes in access to and use of new internet and digital media technologies. The purpose of this study was to better understand how younger audiences are navigating traditional and newer forms of media technologies, with particular emphasis on the skills and competencies needed to obtain, evaluate and apply health-related informa...

This article highlights the importance of the concepts of media literacy, and digital and informational literacy to understand the multimodal meaning of multiliteracies and their interfaces. An analogy with Babel is used to understand the different ways in which this concept articulates the linguistic, visual, audio, spatial, and gestural dimensions in digital culture. In this framework, the qu...

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...

The field of media studies deals with issues involving the complex process of consumption of mass media and its relation to audiences' meaning-making practices. One of the enduring concerns in media studies is the ongoing question regarding the power of mass media, their effects, and their roles as vehicles of culture. For example, in some media approaches, mass media are analyzed simply as pro...