Center for Media LiteracyEducational organization that is dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education
Media Ecology AssociationThe Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community.
Media Education LabThe University of Rhode Island-Research university program that focuses on the intersections of media studies, communication and education
A timely guide aimed at teachers and students, featuring advice on how to promote the skills to access, understand, question, critically analyse and evaluate digital media. It is important that we understand the news media environment and our engagement with it, in all of its factual, social and ethical dimensions. How is fake news spread, and how can you detect it? What sources should you trust, and why?
What does it mean to be media literate in today's world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around us? We are immersed in a world mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). From hardware like smartphones, smartwatches, and home assistants to software like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, our lives have become a complex, interconnected network of relations. Scholarship on media literacy has tended to focus on developing the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages without considering or weighing the impact of the technological medium-how it enables and constrains both messages and media users.
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