THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY: A CULTURAL APPROACH TO NAVIGATING MEDIA LANDSCAPES

<p>One’s familiarity with the commonplace does not automatically equate to one’s being a discerning, savvy, or knowledgeable consumer of media in any form. Nor does it automatically result in a society of engaged Americans capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction amid the unstoppable surge of media artifacts filling their Facebook and Twitter streams. This thesis constructs an American Studies- and communication-based theoretical framework to teach media literacy to undergraduate students.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in American Studies (MAST)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Interdisciplinary Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Schill, Vanessa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Rebecca Hill
• Dr. Erin Ryan

• media
• media literacy
• american studies
• communication
• digital media
• electracy
• pop culture
• American Popular Culture
• Communication Technology and New Media
• Critical and Cultural Studies
• Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication
• Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
• Mass Communication
• Other American Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mast_etd/17

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mast_etd-1009