Citizen Media Literacy Education Comparison and Analysis in China and the United States

Abstract

In the 21st century, with the development of information technology, Internet quietly enters People's Daily life; media tools such as new media become indispensable partners in people's life and learning, which greatly changes people's life style, communicative manners and ways of thinking. The emergence of new media provides people with huge network resources, offers a convenient way of obtaining information, and at the same time provides a platform for people to show themselves. People's personality is made public and developed. In an era of new media and network coverage, people are inseparable from the new media and rely on it, but in the use of its advantages, the new media brings crisis and problems to the human society at the same time. It brings adverse effect to people's life, and the adverse effect has a lot to do with social citizen's media literacy education.