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Media Literacy and the Effect of Socialization

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  • Provides a fundamental introduction to theories of media socialization, media literacy and media competence
  • Analyses international discourses on children, media, media literacy and digital literacy
  • Offers new theoretical perspectives for empirical audience research

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Social and Individual Aspects of Media Activity

  2. Competence, Performance and Media Literacy

  3. Empirical Perspectives

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About this book

This book explores the socially and individually determined nature of media literacy, addressing the central question of how individuals’ media activity can be explained and evaluated. It examines people's media activity through the relationship between their competence to act and actual actions. Further, the book discusses the social factors that foster self-determined media activity, including people's abilities and skills and the associated knowledge that facilitates such skills, from the perspectives of various social science disciplines. Lastly, it applies these theoretical reflections to two empirical studies. Overall, this book provides a fundamental introduction to theories of media socialization, media literacy and media competence, and to the relation between media and socialization. It analyses international discourses on children, media, media literacy, and digital literacy. This book is of interest to scholars and researchers in the field of media studies, including media sociology and media education, communication, and cultural studies. 

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre of Competencies Media Education and E-Learning, Pädagogische Hochschule Salzburg Stefan Zweig, Salzburg, Austria

    Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen

About the author

Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen, PhD, is Professor of Media Education at the Salzburg University of Education Stefan Zweig. Her focus of research is on audience studies, media content, media and socialization, digitalization and mediatization, media education, media literacy and on international comparative research in the fields mentioned above. She is currently working on a project on mobile app repertoires and on a project on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the daily media use of families. She has participated in many international research projects (e.g. COST actions DigiLitEY, ELN, Transforming Audiences. Transforming Societies or the UNESCO/Translit project Mapping Media Policies on Media and Information Literacy in Europe).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Media Literacy and the Effect of Socialization

  • Authors: Christine W. Trültzsch-Wijnen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56360-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56359-2Published: 12 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56362-2Published: 12 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56360-8Published: 11 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 384

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Media Sociology, Media and Communication, Digital/New Media, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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