Carmen Luke
As Seen on TV or was That My Phone? <i>New Media</i> Literacy
University of Queensland
media literacy studies traditionally domain english language arts classrooms cultural studies made significant inroads schoolbased media studies although like media studies concerned politics imagetext representations information literacy also passes computer technology literacy focused principally teaching operational howto skills last decade consumers abandoned newspapers magazines network television en masse favour cable internet news entertainment sources fast news 247 coverage 911 us presidential 2004 campaign world soccer 2003 bali bombings boxing day 2004 tsunami southeast asia global spectacles watched billions given rapid drift towards media convergence consumer shifts old new media argued media literacy studies cultural studies information technology studies longer taught independently