To the degree that media literacy is really said to be defined as such sy those authorities, it does seem like there's room to argue whether it's a coherent concept: it's media "literacy", but it's defined by a concern for what is not actually evident in the work itself, but by some nebulous 'intention' of the author?
Simple literacy is concerned with extracting meaning from texts generally, and not with some specific emphasis on something said to be behind the text which may or may not be evident.
Or: if these anti-conservatives insist on reading in the texts what is not evident in the texts, I'm not so sure they're 'literate' in their reading of media
The word "literacy" is stretched out this way with a bunch of things, like "computer literacy, "financial literacy," "visual literacy," even "physical literacy." I agree that it's pretty goofy.
To the degree that media literacy is really said to be defined as such sy those authorities, it does seem like there's room to argue whether it's a coherent concept: it's media "literacy", but it's defined by a concern for what is not actually evident in the work itself, but by some nebulous 'intention' of the author?
Simple literacy is concerned with extracting meaning from texts generally, and not with some specific emphasis on something said to be behind the text which may or may not be evident.
Or: if these anti-conservatives insist on reading in the texts what is not evident in the texts, I'm not so sure they're 'literate' in their reading of media
The word "literacy" is stretched out this way with a bunch of things, like "computer literacy, "financial literacy," "visual literacy," even "physical literacy." I agree that it's pretty goofy.