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Author
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Srividya Ramasubramanian, Shannon Burth,
and Patrick R. Johnson
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Year
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2025
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Publisher
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Routledge
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Abstract
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This chapter covers definitions, examples, and contemporary debates about media literacy education through the lens of access, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We consider how media literacy enriches the lives of children and teens while also empowering them, with positive implications for their knowledge of and social interactions in the world around them and about themselves. We share up-to-date theory and research findings relevant to media literacy education, especially for diverse young media users, while drawing connections with larger questions of access, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We also look at how media literacy education could sometimes, ironically, exclude minoritized youth, thus reinforcing rather than challenging power, status quo, hierarchies, and inequalities. This chapter explores how media literacy education can reflect or challenge wider hierarchies of societal power and privilege.