What is Media and Information Letiracy ?
Information and Media Letiracy Since the 1990s, the primary focus of information literacy has been research skills. Media literacy , a study that emerges around the 1970s traditionally focuses on the analysis and the delivery of information through various forms of media.Nowadays, the study of Information Literacy has been extended to include the study of Media Literacy in many countries like UK, Australia and New Zealand. The term Information and Media Literacy is used by UNESCO to differentiate the combined study from the existing study of Information Literacy. It is also defined as Information and Communication Technologies ( ICT ) in the United States. Educators, such as Gregory Ulmer , has also defined the field as electracy . IML is a combination of information literacy and media literacy. The purpose of being information and media literate is to engage in a digital society; one needs to be able to use, understand,...