Essay on Media Literacy

Unfortunately, while the media are communicating a plethora of sexual messages, many of those messages would not be considered accurate or healthy. For example, while the amount of sexual content on TV has nearly doubled since 1997 very few teen television shows mention any of the responsibilities or risks (e.g., using contraception, pregnancy, STIs) associated with sex and almost none of the sho...

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Lin et al. (2013) propose a refined framework that aims to address the two limitations of Chen et al.'s (2011) framework. Like Chen et al.'s framework, Lin et al.'s (2013) framework acknowledges new media literacy as indicated by two continua that consist of four types of literacy. Furthermore, our framework further unpacks the four types of new media literacy into ten more fine-grained indicators...