Ellen Middaugh
Civic Media Literacy in a Transmedia World: Balancing Personal Experience, Factual Accuracy and Emotional Appeal as Media Consumers and Circulators
amid growing concerns role fake news civic political life efforts understand best prepare youth evaluate reason online sources gained sense urgencyhowever less attention paid skills used context broader array information behavior typical civic political participation todayparticularly circulation informationthrough thematic analysis interviews think aloud tasks n24 urban high school students reasoning processes search credibility analysis circulating information purposes issue advocacy two considerations civic media literacy education emergedfirst greater attention needed educating youth coordinate considerations factual accuracy social emotional components civic media particularly move beyond task asked assess media tasks searching choosing share mediasecond greater attention needed circulation civic media literacy means share information ethically responsibly