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Archway Commencement Issue, May 2012
A New Definition Of Reading: Exploring Media Literacy In A Changing World, Theresa Navarra
A New Definition Of Reading: Exploring Media Literacy In A Changing World, Theresa Navarra
Honors Projects in Communication
The purpose of this study is to look at media literacy and how it is taught. Considering the rapid advances in technology which have led us to read more than just books, this research argues for a new form of literacy. Through focus group discussions and an analysis of a background questionnaire in support of those discussions, this study discovered that media literacy education in its current state may be having more of a negative effect on students than it anticipates. This research demonstrates the students who have taken media literacy courses, in direct comparison with those who have not, …