Media literacy has come of age. In a society as mass mediated and media saturated as our own, communication technologies are at the core of the political, economic and cultural environments.
This article goes over and reflects upon the following issues regarding media literacy:
– How many of us – or our students – are taught to “read” the media?
– How many of us know who makes the decisions about the programs that the rest of us see or don’t see?
– What will happen to those of us who don’t have access to the latest information technology – to our students who can’t afford personal computers?
– To our fellow citizens who can’t afford computer-generated searches and costly information resources?
– To our global citizens who are still print illiterate in an age where competency is based on graphic read-outs fed across the world through instantaneous integrated digital networks?