How media literacy supports civic engagement? A taxonomical approach
(2017) ELN Training School: Assessing Literacy Skills in a Digital World — Location: Coventry (UK) (4.September.2017)
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- My thesis aims to identify the media literacy competencies mobilized by young adults as part of their civic or political participation. To this end, I combined Carpentier’s (2015) model of media participation with two models of media literacy (Fastrez & De Smedt 2012; Hobbs 2010). The result is a three-dimensional matrix crossing levels (from access to participation), types of activities (split between reception and production), and dimensions of the media (either informational, technical, or social). This matrix enables to define media competencies as accessing, navigating, organizing, analyzing, reflecting, ratifying, creating, and taking social action. My presentation will include definitions of the components of the matrix as well as concrete examples of how this framework can be used to analyze the role of media literacy in civic engagement. The examples will be based on exploratory interviews realized with young adults – i.e. individuals going through the transitional period between late adolescence and mature adulthood – engaged in a citizen-based organization that is searching for solutions against austerity measures.
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Burton, L. (2017). How media literacy supports civic engagement? A taxonomical approach. ELN Training School: Assessing Literacy Skills in a Digital World, Coventry (UK). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/176069