Media literacy, use of critical thinking to parse or create mass media, especially as a consumer in an age of online misinformation and disinformation. The term media literacy is drawn from an analogy with reading literacy: just as the latter refers to an ability to read, write, and understand words and phrases, the former refers to an ability to analyze, evaluate, and produce various kinds of media. Media literacy is often used interchangeably with media education, which refers to the creation, primarily by teachers, of the necessary conditions for developing media literacy.
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