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Media Literacy as a Core Competency for Engaged Citizenship in Participatory Democracy
- Author
- Paul Mihailidis and Benjamin Thevenin
- Year
- 2013
- Publisher
- American Behavioral Scientist, SAGE
- DOI/Link
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- Abstract
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The ubiquitous media landscape today is reshaping what it means to be an engaged
citizen. Normative metrics for engagement—voting, attending town meetings, participation in civic groups—are eroding in the context of online advocacy, social
protest, “liking,” sharing, and remixing. These new avenues for engagement offer vast opportunities for new and innovative approaches to teaching and learning about
political engagement in the context of new media platforms and technologies. This
article explores digital media literacy as a core competency for engaged citizenship in participatory democracy. It combines new models of engaged and citizenship and
participatory politics with frameworks for digital and media literacy education, to develop a framework for media literacy as a core political competency for active, engaged, and participatory citizenship. - Keywords
- Civic Engagement
- Tags
- Audience studies, Participatory culture
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B2: Digital Civic Engagement
- Has Part
- C03-U07: Participatory Cultures and Civic Media
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review