Digital Media Literacies: Rethinking Media Education in the Age of the Internet

Author

Burkhard Schäffer

Year

2017

Publisher

Sage Journals

DOI/Link

https://doi.org/10.2304/rcie.2007.2.1.29

Abstract

This article considers how media educators can respond to the new challenges and opportunities of the Internet, and of digital media more broadly. It begins by exploring the value and limitations of the notion of ‘literacy’ in this context. It argues that ‘competence-based’ definitions of literacy tend to neglect the social diversity of literacy practices, and to retain a narrow focus on ‘information’, and it suggests that a broader definition of literacy necessarily entails a more critical approach. It then moves on to consider the nature of digital literacy more specifically.

Keywords

Digital Literacy, Media Education

Media and Information Literacy Repository – South Asia

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