What is critical media literacy in an age of disinformation?

In this article, we define and provide some history of “critical media literacy” (CML) in education. We then place critical media literacy in context of our current “post‐truth” era. Next, we describe some of the consequences of adults’ addiction to two decades of expanding, omnipresent new media to...

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Published inNew directions for adult and continuing education Vol. 2023; no. 178; pp. 11 - 25
Main Authors Wright, Robin Redmon, Sandlin, Jennifer A., Burdick, Jake
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Wiley 2023
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Subjects
Addictive Behavior
Citizenship
Critical Literacy
Deception
Democracy
Education
Educational Change
Ethics
False information
History
Information Sources
Media Literacy
News Reporting
Power Structure
Social Problems
Social Systems
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Summary:In this article, we define and provide some history of “critical media literacy” (CML) in education. We then place critical media literacy in context of our current “post‐truth” era. Next, we describe some of the consequences of adults’ addiction to two decades of expanding, omnipresent new media to explain why we, like countless scholars from myriad disciplines, are sounding the alarm about the urgent need for a paradigm shift in education that puts critical analyses of media, along with history, social issues, citizenship, democracy, capitalism, plutonomy, and the growing power of autocrats and technocrats at its center.
ISSN:1052-2891
1536-0717
DOI:10.1002/ace.20485