Abstract The article deals with the rise of populism in connection functioning media and role literacy receptivity citizens to populist messages. assumption is that play a dual this context: on one hand, they make people susceptible messages, other can train them become resistant them. quality communication affects level literacy, i.e. ability understand reflect messages are being disseminated ...

The arrival of new media technology has the potential to radically change education. It has become important for both academics and practitioners to understand the behavioural intentions of students towards media technology. Many scales have been developed to measure the attitudes of secondary students towards the usage of media technology. However, few scales have been developed to assess medi...

Media literacy interventions offer promising avenues for the prevention of risky health behaviors among children and adolescents, but current literature remains largely equivocal about their efficacy. The primary objective of this study was to develop and test theoretically-grounded measures of audiences' degree of engagement with the content of media literacy programs based on the recognition ...

In this paper, I argue that MySpace is an informal learning environment that fosters the development of new literacies. This analysis is based on a model that tries to reconcile social and technical perspectives on literacy. The expressive power found in the creation of a MySpace profile concerns a technically simple but socially complex practice: the copying and pasting of code as a way to app...

Media literacy interventions offer promising avenues for the prevention of risky health behaviors among children and adolescents, but current literature remains largely equivocal about their efficacy. The primary objective of this study was to develop and test theoretically-grounded measures of audiences’ degree of engagement with the content of media literacy programs based on the recognition ...

The focus of this paper is to turn our attention to the arts as an understudied area within the computer-supported collaborative learning community and examine how studying the learning of arts and programming can open new avenues of research. We document, describe, and analyze urban youths’ media arts practices within the context of the design studio, particularly by focusing on how collaborat...

Although the technical skills of pupils are quite high, the current approach to gain media literacy still focuses on updating software applying skills, rather than exploring the potential for learning and the nature of digital media as programmed entities. Most educational research was focussed on the computer simply as a tool or a resource, rather than on the idea of making transparent informa...