Year

2006

Publisher

Martin & Madigan

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Abstract

This chapter identifies how media literacy education must adapt to accommodate the
changing nature of young people’s experience with digital media and new communication technologies. Teachers who traditionally emphasize the processes of analysing
news, advertising and entertainment media must expand their focus to include new
media (like cellphones and handheld devices), new message forms (like search engines,
instant messaging, blogs and online entertainment) and new social issues (including identity and anonymity, privacy and surveillance). By examining certain conceptual principles and instructional practices which may (or may not) support this shift in focus,
this chapter examines the process that teachers will experience as they aim to
strengthen students’ communication and critical thinking skills as full participants in the
digital age.

Keywords

MIL004