Presentation
Exploring News Media Literacy: Developing New Measures of Literacy and Knowledge
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
(2011)
Abstract
Using a framework previously applied to other areas of media literacy, we developed an attitudinal scale focused specifically on news media literacy and compared that to a knowledge-based index including items about the structure of the U.S. news media system. Among our college student sample, the knowledge-based index was a significant predictor of knowledge about topics in the news, while the attitudinal scale was not. Implications for future work in assessing news literacy are discussed.
Keywords
- media literacy,
- survey,
- civic engagement,
- political knowledge
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Seth Ashley, Adam Maksl and Stephanie Craft. "Exploring News Media Literacy: Developing New Measures of Literacy and Knowledge" Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/seth_ashley/6/