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Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy that includes the ability to access and analyze media messages as well as create, reflect and take action, using the power of information and communication to make a difference in the world. [1] Media literacy applies to different types of media [2] and is seen as important skills for ...
Contents. Information and media literacy. 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 ]
Multiliteracy (plural: multiliteracies) is an approach to literacy theory and pedagogy coined in the mid-1990s by the New London Group. [1] The approach is characterized by two key aspects of literacy – linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expressions and representation. It was coined in response to two major changes in the ...
Digital literacy is composed of different literacies, because of this fact, there is no need to search for similarities and differences. [22] Some of these literacies are media literacy and information literacy. Aviram and Eshet-Alkalai contend that five types of literacies are encompassed in the umbrella term that is digital literacy.
Information literacy. The Association of College and Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities ...
Media linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. It studies the functioning of language in the media sphere, or modern mass communication presented by print, audiovisual, digital, and networked media. Media linguistics investigates the relationship between language use, which is regarded as an interface between social and ...
Metaliteracy is the ability to evaluate information for its bias, reliability, and credibility and apply them in the context of production and sharing of knowledge. It is especially useful in the context of the internet and social media. [1] A formal concept of it was developed as an expanded information literacy framework by State University ...
Referencing the multiple applications of literacy when it comes to politics, media, visual imagery, science etc. 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 fit ...