This blog post was developed based on the paper "Media literacy through critical thinking" by Chris M. Worsnop, which can be found at: https://depts.washington.edu/nwmedia/sections/nw_center/curriculum_docs/teach_combine.pdf. What is Media Literacy? It is by now a cliché to say that we live in a media age. For more than twenty years we have been hearing statistics about the number of hours people spend watching TV, listening to popular music and radio. More recently we can add to this list the other hours spent at computer keyboards or in shopping malls. The point of mentioning this new arrangement of human time is not to bewail it as a bad habit, or to moan about it as time wasted, but simply to point it out as a fact. The fact is this: young people today receive nearly all their information through popular culture mass communication; yet schools do little to help them understand popular culture. We are presently living in conditions similar to those in the dark and middl
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