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Representation Matters: Media Literacy for Inclusive Storytelling Practices
- Author
- Dr. Pramiti Roy
- Year
- 2025
- Publisher
- Swami Vivekananda University Press
- Abstract
- This article looks back on digital storytelling and collaborative media practices as important resources to reconsider memory, challenge identity discourses, and reveal the cultural diversity of modern societies. The digital eramakes possible an incessant re-reading and re-mediation of cultural archives on the part of ordinary citizens, i.e., younger generations, and the creation and diffusion of counter narratives regarding the present. They are key chances for post-colonial communities to break silences over painful memories that bar collective reappropriation of the past, to face some of the issues of ethnical diversity, and discrimination today and to reimagine a more united identity. But seizing this moment means fully acknowledging the function of media technology in constructing memory, social individuation and building networks, so that media literacy and media education become essential dimensions of cultural dialogue. Drawing on the experience of a citizenship project on the post-colonial condition and Afro-European inter culturality, this essay discusses digital storytelling, and co-creative practices as useful literacy and education strategies to advance interculturality in today’s societies. Media literacy includes other literacies like reading literacy, writing literacy, computer literacy, and information literacy but uses them for the analysis of media in a targeted manner. This research hopes to demonstrate the impact of media literacy on students’ critical thinking of current events in a high school government class. Students engaged in a four- lesson unit on various facets of media literacy as they pertain to current event media sources. The data were triangulated using three kinds of data: pre-test and post-test current event assignment, lesson activities, and informal conversation and observations.