Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s media literacy! [Carnival of Journalism]

Beckett, Charlie (2011) Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s media literacy! [Carnival of Journalism]. [Online resource]

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As a journalist working in a university I very aware of the power of the idea of media literacy. I am sure that to exploit the social potential of new media and the knowledge economy, that we need more of it. But I now fear it has become a reflex piece of policy rhetoric to replace real thinking about how people use information.