Literacy, Media, and Education

Reading and writing have always been more than decoding text, but the proliferation of screens, platforms, and networked media has made that complexity impossible to ignore. Scholars working at the intersection of literacy, media, and education examine how people make and interpret meaning across combinations of image, sound, video, and written language — and what it takes to do so critically rather than passively. A central concern is whether schools are adequately preparing young people to navigate participatory digital cultures where they are simultaneously audiences, producers, and distributors of content. Active debates turn on how to assess multimodal competence, whose literacies get recognized as legitimate in formal education, and how critical awareness of media systems can be cultivated without reducing complex cultural practices to a checklist of skills.

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Multimodal LiteracyNew LiteraciesMedia LiteracyDigital LiteracyParticipatory CultureYouth Engagement