Singapore has one of the highest Internet and mobile phone penetration rates in the world. With increasing government investment in IT, media and technology are assuming an ever growing role in the lives of Singaporeans. Singaporeans use media intensively, consuming media in all forms as they acquire information essential to their education, work, social and recreational lives. Singapore is a highly mediatised country which has embraced infocomm technology in virtually every aspect of life, especially in government, business and education. Traditional broadcast and print media have converged with newer digital, online and mobile content to produce a media landscape that provides Singaporeans with greater choice, but which also presents them with more challenges. As Singaporeans navigate through this rich and vast media landscape, they are finding their media literacy being increasingly tested as they need to access different media platforms and evaluate media content of diversifying genres and varying quality.
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Lim, S.S., Nekmat, E. (2009). Media Education in Singapore – New Media, New Literacies?. In: Cheung, CK. (eds) Media Education in Asia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9529-0_13
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