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The Power and Politics of Media and Information Literacy
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Abstract We are living in a media-saturated world. Not only we receive information, we have become prosumers and are able to communicate with the ‘world.’ This has been widely reflected in the academic texts. But is there a dark side to this ‘age of information freedom?’ My argument in this paper is that alt... view more
We are living in a media-saturated world. Not only we receive information, we have become prosumers and are able to communicate with the ‘world.’ This has been widely reflected in the academic texts. But is there a dark side to this ‘age of information freedom?’ My argument in this paper is that although we have gotten rid of one sort of tyranny and can more freely speak up, a more suppressive and widespread process of control and surveillance is underway. Worse than that, we the users seem to be comfort with that.... view less
Keywords
competence; control; power; freedom of information; media skills; politics; information; monitoring
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
information literacy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 79-81
Journal
Journal of Cyberspace Studies, 6 (2022) 1
ISSN
2588-5502
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed