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Media Literacy
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The ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media: reading a photograph's framing, a headline's slant or an algorithmic feed's selection as deliberately made things. Taught as a civic skill since the later twentieth century, it has become central to public responses to misinformation on social media.
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Formulated YearNorth American media literacy education is often dated to the 1978 founding of the Ontario-based Association for Media Literacy; UNESCO's Grunwald Declaration of 1982 later established media literacy as an international priority, so sources differ on which date marks its formulation. Concept Domain Sources
1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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In North America, the beginnings of a formalized approach to media literacy as a topic of education is often attributed to the 1978 formation of the Ontario-based Association for Media Literacy (AML).
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