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Media and information literacy (MIL) in library classrooms: Content analysis of news evaluative criteria in instructional worksheets and checklists

Author
Anna Kozlowska-Barrios
Year
2023
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI/Link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102680
Abstract
This research aims to analyze the evaluative criteria the U.S. academic librarians employ in their instructional worksheets and checklists to understand how academic librarians teach media and information literacy (MIL)-related content. The study employs content analysis as a primary method to analyze these evaluative criteria and finds that academic librarians in the U.S. are mainly concerned with information literacy concepts while teaching news literacy topics (i.e., fake news, disinformation) and select criteria that revolve around the authority of sources (i.e., “authorship” and “quality of supporting evidence”) while media literacy concepts (i.e., “representation”) go vastly unrecognized.
Language
English
Keywords
Media and Information Literacy, Information Literacy
Tags
Media analysis, Source evaluation

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