Castillo said he appreciated the news literacy sessions for opening his eyes to the ways information can be slanted. California Bass vs. Caruso: How to pick the next Los Angeles mayor.

Media literacy is the practice of taking in media messages and understanding their influence on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. In an increasingly technology-focused world, it's a skill people ...

Over the last decade, Lipkin, the Brooklyn teacher and activist, has seen her media literacy umbrella group grow from fewer than 300 members to 7,000, most of them educators, from kindergarten ...

My background is as a journalist, and I find media literacy an ideal way to communicate to people how all media messaging, including news, is constructed, by whom, about whom and why. The driving ...

The phrase “media literacy” appears six times in Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 8 – Information, released in June. (Valerie O’Berry) Inside the Marine Corps’ newest doctrinal ...

Background Media and Information Literacy for the Public Good. In 2021, the UN General Assembly decided to commemorate Media and Information Literacy (MIL) week, citing the need for the ...

The project also facilitated national consultations involving multiple stakeholders to prepare a background document for a Media and Information Literacy National Policy and Strategy in Colombia. One ...

Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1964 that ‘The medium is the message’.McLuhan is one of the founding fathers of what we now call media and information literacy. While the medium may affect how messages are ...

October 2017, No. 3 Vol. LIV 2017, Prevention. S ince its inception more than 10 years ago, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) recognized media literacy as an educational and ...