This article deals with the concept of information overload as a crucial element of the changing information environment. Against this background, the authors discuss an alternative process for the conceptualisation of educational media literacy. By combining two nationally-based concepts on media literacy (German and Anglo-American), the yield of such a transnational approach will be demonstrated. The first section is dedicated to a historical overview. Based on the observation that humanity is currently dealing and always has dealt with information overload, leads to the necessity of coping with said overload. To this end, the second section will present and didactically reduce both discourses to their essentials. The third section provides a possible conceptualisation of both concepts and practical application of the combined approach for scholastic learning. The aim of this paper is to stimulate an international exchange on media literacy.
In dem vorliegenden Artikel steht "Medienkritik" als Teilaspekt von Medienkompetenz im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung. Dabei sind die zentralen Fragen, welche Relevanz sie unter den gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen und technologischen Rahmenbedingungen hat und welche Dimensionen Medienkritik beinhaltet. Aus diesem Grund wird eine Analyse von verschiedenen Medienkritikkonzepten vorgenommen. Da sich diese jedoch als unzureichend erweisen, wird in diesem Artikel eine alternative Neukonzeptualisierung vorgeschlagen.
Today's society is characterized by a mobility shift in the usage of media, which influences the ways people communicate and express themselves. This paper explores the basic correlation between mobility and creative ways of mobile phone usage. The results of a study conducted among 597 students at the University of Paderborn show how mobile phone users adopt creative ways of communicating in their daily life. Furthermore, different special subgroups of mobile users and their creative actions could be identified. The analysis also reveals a correlation between creative mobile usage and mobile gaming. All in all, this paper aims at highlighting the creative ways in which young adults use mobile technologies.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.