Community dimension of media literacy

Authors

  • Gemma Abellán
  • Carme Mayugo

Keywords:

Self-representation, social cohesion, competence, community projection, Media Literacy, environment

Abstract

Some theoretical contributions to the Media Literacy set up the dialogue, the exchange and the renegotiation of meanings as a starting point for interaction and knowledge. In all these approaches, the environment becomes a vital factor, because in its position we find the social interrelations and the possibility of learning in a collective and/or community way. In our societies, media are holding a big space in people’s social sphere. At the same time it is acquiring more critical competence towards contents reception, the knowledge and the use of media skills bring new languages to the citizenship to explore its surroundings, promoting the mutual knowledge and the social cohesion, keys for social change..

Published

2008-10-01

How to Cite

Abellán, G., & Mayugo, C. (2008). Community dimension of media literacy. Comunicar, 16(31), 129–136. Retrieved from https://revistacomunicar.com/ojs/index.php/comunicar/article/view/C31-2008-17