History of Media Literacy, part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all...
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Questions of media literacy – what it means, who should have it, and how they should get it – are as old as media itself. Technologies like smartphones and the internet have made media literacy more important than ever. But concerns about media and their effects have been around a long, long time. Many of the arguments for and against media have shaped how new technologies, industries, and cultures have developed throughout history. Media literacy as a term or a field didn’t become “a thing” until around the 1960’s. Before it became the work of communications scholars and media professionals, thinking about communication was (and often still is) led by philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and critical theorists. It’s an ancient p...
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Questions of media literacy – what it means, who should have it, and how they should get it – are as old as media itself. Technologies like smartphones and the internet have made media literacy more important than ever. But concerns about media and their effects have been around a long, long time. Many of the arguments for and against media have shaped how new technologies, industries, and cultures have developed throughout history. Media literacy as a term or a field didn’t become “a thing” until around the 1960’s. Before it became the work of communications scholars and media professionals, thinking about communication was (and often still is) led by philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and critical theorists. It’s an ancient p...
