This article considers the continued relevance of critical research on audience reception and audience ethnography to today’s study of complex media and communications environment. Although much of the work addressing people’s engagement with new media is now framed not in terms of audiences but rather in terms of literacies, there are many parallels between the critical analysis of literacy an...

This article reports on a work-in-progress research on media and information literacy in teamwork and distance work environments. We introduce a theoretical framework that articulates the social and informational dimensions of media and information literacy in the workplace. Based on this framework, we propose a method for investigating the relationship between information literacy and work org...

This article realized the Russian way of theological media education literacy and hermeneutic analysis of specific examples of Soviet anti-religious audiovisual media texts: a study of the process of interpretation of these media texts, cultural and historical factors influencing the views of the media agency / authors. The hermeneutic analysis suggests media text comprehension through comparis...

I n recent years, there has been an increasing amount of research devoted to understanding how young people are incorporating digital media into their everyday lives and the kinds of literacy learning and socialization that take place with the use of new media (e. of literacy and socialization with new media has dealt relatively little with young people whose first language is not English or wh...

Whether seen from a “minimalist” or a “maximalist” model of democratic participation, the issue of the role of the internet in facilitating citizens’ participation in the public sphere has acquired a permanent place in the academic and public debate. Particular attention has been devoted to young people and their engagement with the internet and digital media. While a consistent body of writing...

INTRODUCTION Latin America has the highest prevalence of tobacco use by youth. Higher media literacy, defined as the ability to analyze and evaluate media messages, has been associated with lower smoking among youth in the United States. The objective of this study was to determine whether media literacy related to smoking is independently associated with current smoking and susceptibility to f...

The rapid and ubiquitous proliferation of new media literacy tools and texts create opportunities for widespread innovation, and challenges the traditional English, Language Arts analysis and description of the processes of literacy in a digital world. The authors of this issue address these changes in articles that draw upon their personal experiences, research, teaching, and participatory res...

Media literacy is considered one of the key competencies to acquire in 21st century. With games being recognized as having a large potential train and educate, wide range focusing on media related topics such fake news games, digital privacy, personal habits, practical skills have sprung up over years. All claim foster competencies. This begs question how these generally frame understand litera...