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Preferred term
aims and purposes of media literacy
Definition
- Media literacy refers to an expansion of alphabetic literacy and orality concepts to include the social uses of print, electronic, and digital media tools and records. The Aspen Institute Leadership Forum on Media Education defines media literacy as “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms.” These forms include print, still images, moving images, interactive media, digital media, and audio. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Media Literacy, Aims and Purposes of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/aims_and_purposes_of_media_literacy
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