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Media Literacy and Communication Rights

O'Neill, Brian·2010·International Communication Gazette
DOI 10.1177/1748048510362445
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/ The dominant discourse of media literacy policy espouses an ethical individualism within the digital media environment in which the source of moral values and principles, and the basis of ethical evaluation, is the individual. In this perspective, even vulnerable citizens such as children and young people, who tend to be in the vanguard of new media adoption, are required to negotiate the risks and opportunities of the online world with diminishing degrees of institutional support from trusted information sources. Noticeably absent from this discourse is any consideration of the notion of communication rights. Examining an alternative conceptualization of media literacy identifies it as a fundamental human right as important as other forms of literacy. Examining some of the ethical challenges that citizens now face in the digital world, the article argues that a rights-based framework is required to address the challenges posed for media literacy education.

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Authors
O'Neill, B.
Affiliations
School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, brian.oneill@dit.ie
Venue
International Communication Gazette
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2010-05-18
Volume
72
Issue
4-5
Pages
323-338
ISSN
  • 1748-0485 (ISSN-L)
  • 1748-0493
DOI
10.1177/1748048510362445
OpenAlex
W2107063575
Cited by
33
References
0
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FWCI
52.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
International Communication Gazette (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Media, Communication, and Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education and Digital Technologies
Keywords
media literacy, right to communication, media literacy policy, rights-based approach, ethical individualism, children and young people, digital media, media literacy education, human rights

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