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Media literacy applies to different types of media, [2] and is seen as an important skill for work, life, and citizenship. [1] Examples of media literacy include reflecting on one's media choices, [3] identifying sponsored content, [4] recognizing stereotypes, [5] analyzing propaganda [6] and discussing the benefits, risks, and harms of media ...
Information and media literacy (IML) enables people to show and make informed judgments as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages. [1] IML is a combination of information literacy and media literacy. [2]
The 10th annual U.S. Media Literacy Week Oct. 21-25 is your chance to answer that question, and to celebrate the importance of critical thinking about media as a fundamental life skill.
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. Digital literacy combines both technical and cognitive abilities; it consists of using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share information.
Critical literacy is the application of critical social theory to literacy. [1] Critical literacy finds embedded discrimination in media [2] [3] by analyzing the messages promoting prejudiced power relationships found naturally in media and written material that go unnoticed otherwise by reading beyond the author's words and examining the manner in which the author has conveyed their ideas ...
Referencing the multiple applications of literacy when it comes to politics, media, visual imagery, science etc. [2] Kress addresses the limitations to the idea of literacy and seeks to expand the idea of communications through writing. the "design" of writing, Kress muses, is the ability to generate changes in meaning and purpose in writing to ...
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an American nonpartisan national education nonprofit, based in Washington, D.C., that provides resources for educators, students, and the general public to help them learn to identify credible information, recognize misinformation and disinformation, and determine what they can trust, share, and act on.
Titled as the Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report, [20] the article outlines the importance of information literacy, opportunities to develop it, and the idea of an Information Age School. The recommendations of the Committee led to establishment of the National Forum on Information Literacy, a coalition of more than 90 ...