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Assessing Contemporary Media Literacy Journey, Challenges, and Achievements in the Age of Misinformation and Fake News

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  • Hadiza Wada

    (Kaduna State University, Nigeria)

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The contemporary realities of media production and use have brought about the need for media literacy, which has emerged as a subject matter in both the academics and public square. The popularity and pervasiveness of user-generated content in the form of citizen journalism, social media, alternative media, and others have invaded the once professionally processed information, whose sources are known and vetted by proud and logo-embossed media outlets. The result has forced on the world the need to train consumers of media content to become literate and discern for themselves the facts from the lies and the useful from the useless. This paper analyzes the causes that made media literacy binding, its methodology, and most directly, the need for a review of journalism education content and processes to match the contemporary mindset of the digital generation of students.

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  • Hadiza Wada, 2023. "Assessing Contemporary Media Literacy Journey, Challenges, and Achievements in the Age of Misinformation and Fake News," RAIS Conference Proceedings 2022-2023 0317, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
    • Handle: RePEc:smo:raiswp:0317
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    Media literacy; new media effects; media education; social media effects;
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