The vast amount of audiovisual and multimedia content that is currently delivered via multiple ways and platforms makes media literacy imperative to enhance citizens’ ability to assess the credibility and trustworthiness of media sources. By recognizing bias and misinformation and understanding the impact the media can have on individuals and socie...
This exploratory study (N = 310) investigates the relationship between students’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI), their attitudes toward AI ethics, and their media and digital literacy levels. This study’s specific objectives were to examine students’ (a) general attitudes toward AI, (b) attitudes toward AI ethics, (c) the relationshi...
This study examines the effects of misleading news—one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China—in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers’ perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general tr...
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a media literacy education intervention on adolescents’ responses to digital marketing of weight-control products, focusing on media literacy, persuasion resistance efficacy, and purchase intention. Using a quasi-experimental design, the study involved 326 11th-grade students from a municipal high school ...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction Media health literacy emerges as a response to the vast array of informational disorders prevalent in media communications. Given the absence of a measurement tool for this type of literacy in Spanish-speaking communities, the aim of the present study is to conduct a cross-cultural adaptation of the Media Health Literacy (MeHLit) quest...
Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá analýzou mediální gramotnosti středoškoláků. Cílem bylo zjistit schopnost studentů rozpoznat dezinformace, hoaxy a další různé nepravdy na internetu. Výzkum byl proveden pomocí kvantitativního dotazníku, který zodpovědělo 105 studentů ze 2 různých škol. Hlavní zjištění ukazují, že ačkoli studenti často rozpoznají něk...
Published in Frontiers in Communication
Disinformation generates political polarization and affects the quality of democracy, so understanding attitudes towards the regulation of disinformation will help society and its leaders to develop effective and inclusive approaches to combat this phenomenon. The purpose of the research is to determine the perceptions and propensities of Andean Co...
Published in Journal of American college health : J of ACH
This study evaluated a media literacy education program designed for sexual health promotion, Media Aware, in southeastern universities. Participants included college students from four universities in the southeastern United States (n = 457). Media Aware was implemented on college campuses either in a group setting, one-on-one setting, at a studen...
Published in Research on Education and Media
Given the importance of teachers’ views and perspectives in promoting media literacy among students and children, this study examines the perspectives of kindergarten teachers in Austria on media education. Data was collected through an online survey of kindergarten teachers who participated in a training. The results show that common approaches to...
