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An Introduction to Media Literacy

Research Anthology on Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Students, 2021
In today's information society, the media have important functions in the formation of certain perceptions by regulating the social lives of individuals.
Belgin Arslan-Cansever
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Media Literacy: From a Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy [PDF]

open access: possibleMEDIA LITERACY in the INFORMATION AGE, 2018
The purpose of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy was to shape a national framework for media literacy so that each participating group could demonstrate its own niche and role in achieving common objectives. This report details the approaches and conclusions of the 25 representative leaders of the media literacy movement who met to ...
P. Aufderheide
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Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19

Mass Communication & Society, 2022
Fake information about COVID-19 continues to circulate widely, including false causes and cures. The current study examined the (a) relationship between information gathering sources and misperceptions; (b) association between literacy variables and ...
Porismita Borah, E. Austin, Yan Su
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Media Literacy and Media Education [PDF]

open access: possible2021 1st International Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education (TELE), 2021
Features of perception of media texts are considered, modern theories of media education are analyzed, which accumulate pedagogical theories and theories of media in themselves. Directions of development of media education are formulated, components of formation of media literacy and media competency are distinguished.
Alexander Rusakov, Viktar Kazachonak
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Effects of Disinformation Using Deepfake: The Protective Effect of Media Literacy Education

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2021
This research examines (a) the negative impact of disinformation including a deepfake video and (b) the protective effect of media literacy education. We conducted an experiment using a two disinformation message type (deepfake video present vs.
Yoori Hwang, J. Ryu, Se‐Hoon Jeong
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How Media Literacy and Science Media Literacy Predicted the Adoption of Protective Behaviors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of health communication, 2021
Individuals must navigate complex media environments filled with frequently changing and varyingly credible information to acquire and apply health information during times of uncertainty and danger. A process model tested in two U.S. national surveys in
E. Austin   +4 more
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Media Literacy

2021
The discussion about media literacy today goes far beyond the traditional understanding of media competence. At the same time, very different meanings are attributed to the term. This book brings together 14 contributions on different dimensions of media literacy: in addition to definitions of terms, it addresses media and information literacy in ...
Keel, Guido, Weber, Wibke
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Fact-Checking of Health Information: The Effect of Media Literacy, Metacognition and Health Information Exposure

Journal of health communication, 2021
With the rampant circulation of health information, concerns for the information quality are growing. Thereby, scholars are calling for media literacy as an educative means to cultivate fact-checking behavior among information consumers.
Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Onur Ramazan
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Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don’t

American Behavioral Scientist, 2019
Concerns over fake news have triggered a renewed interest in various forms of media literacy. Prevailing expectations posit that literacy interventions help audiences to be “inoculated” against any harmful effects of misleading information.
S. M. Jones-Jang   +2 more
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