Media and information literacy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media and information literacy -- Introduction to media and information literacy -- Types of media and information sources -- Issues in media and information -- Legal, ethical, and societal issues in media and information -- Opportunities, challenges, and power of media and information -- Trends in media and information -- Current and future trends of media and information -- Media and information literate individual -- People media -- Text information and media -- Visual information and media -- Audio information and media -- Motion information and media -- Multimedia information and media -- Social media -- Information literacy in the classroom -- Data-driven social media strategy.

"Information literacy has become a survival skill for the contemporary society. It entails individuals who are skillful in the use of information. Information is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media, and the Internet--and increasingly, information comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions about its authenticity, validity, and reliability. In addition, information is available through multiple media, including graphical, aural, and textual, and these pose new challenges for individuals in evaluating and understanding it. Media and information literacy (MIL), understood as the capability of being efficient and effective in a digital society, becomes an essential competency if we refer to new learning environments. In this regard, citizen digital participation in these new learning scenarios is framed not just in terms of basic access to media and the Internet but by the effective use of a range of media and learning experiences. Challenges all citizens face arise from the features of new learning environments: new devices, continuous connectivity and wide access to all kinds of information anywhere, anytime and anyplace, which will be better met by the set of competencies MIL provides. In this context, MIL becomes a key component in 21st century learning. This course aims to provide the theoretical evidence and connections between media literacy and new learning environments: e-learning, u-learning and social learning, evidencing the need to foster media literacy to empower active citizenship to achieve new educational goals in both formal and informal learning through the use of new technologies and the Internet. This course looks at the importance of Media & Information Literacy for individuals in the 21st century. It provides the concept, as well as a detailed exploration of the competencies that compose it. This Fourth Edition is an exploratory and introductory course which leads you to Media and Information Literacy Certificate Level I. In this edition old units have been revised and a new unit is added to make each subject matter more interesting and easier to understand by the students. It aims to inspire learners in striving harder by developing a sense of responsibility and commitment as they go along with the course. It covers fifteen units under three sections"-- Back cover.