For centuries, literacy has referred to the ability to read and write. Today, we get most of our information through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. Media literate youth and adults are better able to understand the complex messages we receive from television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and all other forms of media.
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WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our world view. Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield give you the tools to survive the media maelstrom.
In 2010 the Aspen Institute published a paper called Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action: A White Paper on the Digital and Media Literacy Recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Access the full report here: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/digital-media-literacy-plan-action-2/
Written by Renee Hobbs, this report offers a plan of action for how to bring digital and media literacy education into formal and informal settings through a community education movement. The report defines digital and media literacy as a constellation of life skills that are necessary for full participation in our media-saturated, information-rich society.