Media/Information Literacy The changing nature and uses of media literacy - http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/pdf/Media@lseEWP4_july03.pdf The more that information and communication technologies become central to modern society, the more it is imperative to identify, and to manage the development of the skills and abilities required to use them. Within both academic and policy discourses, the concept of media literacy is being extended from its traditional focus on print and audiovisual media to encompass the internet and other new media. Hence, even though the concept of literacy has itself long proved contentious, there is widespread speculation regarding supposedly new forms of literacy - variously termed computer literacy, internet literacy, cyber-literacy, and so forth. This article addresses three central questions currently facing the public, policy-makers and academy: What is media literacy? How is it changing? And what are the uses of literacy? The article begins with a definition: media literacy is the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create messages across a variety of contexts. This four-component model is then examined for its applicability to the internet. [from ITEM - IT in Education Matters - Issue 6, 27th August 2003] Isn't it interesting that the definition of media literacy used here is so close to the definition of information literacy used by most librarians? 7:31:42 AM     [comment []];[]