Media Literacy Competence Research Articles

Media dan Peace Building: Media Literacy for Sekolah Wijaya Kusuma Students

Abstract
 
 Globalization changes the nature of media and information dissemination, where media plays an important part in enhancing peace. But on the other hand, media is not only a tool to promote harmony but conflict as well. However, peacebuilding depends largely on media literacy. Media literacy offers people potentialities to promote peace, especially at young ages. Therefore, this program aims to help students improve their media literacy competence, specifically regarding how to use media wisely. This program also collaborates with Jawara Internet Sehat to promote the internet for positive use to 100 Wijaya Kusuma School students. The implementations of this program are divided into 3 stages, preparation, delivery, and evaluation. The preparation stage focused on analyzing the problems faced by Sekolah Wijaya Kusuma to help us build suitable training modules. Then in the delivery stage, we conduct training through seminars and workshops that focus on using media wisely and avoiding hoaxes. And lastly, we evaluate the feedback given by the students and the result shows that this program helps the student to improve their media literacy and promote peacebuilding through media.

MEDIA LITERACY AS A 21ST KEY COMPETENCE. A CASE STUDY OF ROMANIA.

This study argues the necessity of implementation of media literacy in schools by interpreting media literacy in relation to 'communication' and knowledge and information society, which are included in the key competences of European Union. In the Romanian educational system, the media literacy competence is not aimed in any educational curriculum. Few efforts have been made in the past ten years, efforts initiated by the civil society experts and not adapted to the national curriculum yet. Based on the literature review and on the content analyses of the national curriculum, this study contrived media literacy strands and standards including performance objectives and basic teaching and learning contents. By theoretically systemizing media literacy, this study is expected to promote the understandings of media literacy in schools and promote its implementations in the classrooms.

The Relationship between Maternal Media Literacy and Children's Media Literacy

Objective: Since children and adolescents are one of the most important consumers of media and media play a significant role in shaping and influencing their behavior towards consumption patterns and daily life activities, this study aimed to elucidate the role of maternal media literacy in children's media literacy. Methods and Materials: The present research adopted a descriptive correlational design. The population consisted of all male and female students attending public secondary schools in District 5 of Tehran city and engaged in studies during the academic year of 2022-2023. The sample size, determined using Morgan and Krejcie table, was 249 individuals, selected through multi-stage cluster sampling method. To measure the research variables, the Toman Media Literacy Questionnaire (1995) and a researcher-made questionnaire on media literacy competence were employed. Findings: Content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by experts, and their reliability was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, yielding 0.82 and 0.83, respectively. The results obtained from the structural equation modeling using PLS3 software indicated that children's media literacy can be predicted based on maternal media literacy (p > 0.01). Conclusion: Considering the role of maternal media literacy in enhancing children's media literacy competence, it can be inferred that maternal media literacy has had a significant influence on the media literacy competence of adolescent students.

Improving children’s wellbeing through media literacy education: An Irish study

Via diverse content including programmes, songs and child-led social media channels, children are constantly exposed to commercially funded messages encouraging purchase behaviour. While there is no definitive agreement that advertising to children is detrimental to their wellbeing (Rowthorn, 2019), there is an enduring concern over the unintended effects of advertising on children (Opree et al., 2019). A substantive body of literature advocates for media literacy education to enable children to critically assess the content of marketing messages (De Pauw et al., 2018; Nelson, 2016). However, there is a dearth of research focusing specifically on the relationship between media practices of children, in terms of activities and competencies, and their wellbeing at pre-teen ages (Swist et al., 2015). This study responds to that gap by piloting a recently launched media literacy intervention designed to complement wellbeing curriculum in Irish primary schools, exploring if media literacy competences can improve children’s wellbeing.

미디어 리터러시 역량 인식의 전문가 집단 간 동질성과 차별성

미디어 리터러시 역량 인식의 전문가 집단 간 동질성과 차별성

Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence

Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing instruction to address the wide range of learner variation in today’s inclusive classrooms, can be applied effectively to broaden access, understanding, and engagement in digital and media literacy learning for ALL. UDL supports constructivist learning principles. UDL strategiesand methods encouragedevelopment of expert learners though personal engagement and motivation. UDL transforms one-size-fits-all instruction into diverse, multiple, and accessible learning opportunities that embrace student variation. UDL principles and guidelines offer a unique way for educators in digital and media literacy fields to ensure that their work will benefit the widest range of learners, including those with learning challenges and disabilities.

New Media Literacy within the Context of Socio-Demographic Characteristics

The aim of research is to determine differences in media literacy competences in relation to socio-demographic characteristics of examinees from academic society in Serbia. This research was conducted in 2013 on 726 examinees. Hypotheses have been analysed by multivariate analysis of variant (MANOVA) and correlation analysis while testing differences in professions regarding incomes has been done by X2 analysis.The results show that there are significant differences in media literacy competences among examinees regarding gender, age, area of education and income. The results do not differ from the results of other cultural, economic and social contexts.

Modeling Relationship between Media Literacy Competencies and Use of New Media for Civic Engagement among Youths in New Digital Media Environment

There are ample theoretical positions arguing that media literacy competence are essential requirement of citizenship in the new digital environment but little research tries to confirm this position through empirical data. This study collected data from youth in both rural and urban areas of Kwara State Nigeria for the purpose of testing the relationship of media literacy competence to the use of new media for civic engagement. The results of the analysis through partial least squares PLS-SEM indicate that there is significant relationship between media literacy competencies and use of new media for civic engagement. The significant path analysis shows that ability to own or have access to gadgets and the possession of media skills have strong relationship with use of new media for civic engagement. Similar results were obtained for the media literacy competence of critical understanding and communication competences of the youths. Therefore, the outcome provides support for the theoretical positions of the relationship between media literacy and civic engagement. The implication of the findings in the context of Nigeria and other developing countries is that effective us of new media that maximisie opportunities and reduced risk depends on media literacy competence. Keywords: media literacy, new media, civic engagement, digital media

The Digital Citizenship among Adolescents -the Effects of Media Literacy Competence and the Experience of Education

The Digital Citizenship among Adolescents -the Effects of Media Literacy Competence and the Experience of Education