New Media Literacy within the Context of Socio-Demographic Characteristics

From Media Literacy to New Media Literacy: A Lens Into Open and Distance Learning Context

“…Table 7 above demonstrates no significant differences between NML skills depending on monthly income (p>0.05), which suggests that monthly income is not a factor contributing to higher or lower NML skills. This result is contradictory to Arsenijevic & Andevski (2016) who reported significant differences in NML skills depending on monthly income in favor of higher income levels. However, the participants for their study also included university professors, which might explain the significant difference result since the open and distance learners participating in this study differ in terms of monthly income.…”

Validation of an Instrument for Preservice Teachers and an Investigation of Their New Media Literacy

“…In the same vein, this gender gap in ICT usage of the post-secondary students was also underlined by Nasah, DaCosta, Kinsell, and Seok (2010). Although numerous media literacy studies revealed significant difference in favor of male participants (Arsenijević & Andevski, 2016; Literat, 2014), several studies revealed quite the opposite, namely, better media literacy levels of female participants (Kahne et al., 2012). The reason behind these varying gender differences would be the sociocultural roles of each gender when social and cultural aspects of NML are taken into account.…”

“…Research into new media in education included those studies that developed and validated research instruments measuring NML levels of learners (Chen et al., 2014; Koc & Barut, 2016; Lee et al., 2015; Young, 2015). Other studies looked at whether NML levels differ in relation to certain variables (Arsenijević & Andevski, 2016; Chen et al., 2014; Literat, 2014). Finally, another body of research focused on how to foster NML in learners (Angela, 2011; Alper, 2013; Alvarez, et al., 2013; Micheli, 2013).…”

“…Relationship between media literacy and gender was also investigated in former studies; however, the findings were mostly inconclusive. Some studies revealed significant difference in favor of male participants (Arsenijević & Andevski, 2016; Literat, 2014), whereas several studies showed better media literacy levels of female participants (Chang et al., 2011; Kahne, Lee, & Feezell, 2012). In some studies, there was no significant gender differences (Zhang & Zhu, 2016).…”

“…Grounded in prior studies showing that gender may be associated with media literacy (Kahne et al., 2012; Zhang & Zhu, 2016) and with attitudes related with technology (Chang, 2008; Lee & Yuan, 2010; Yen & Lee, 2011), this study reexamines the relationship between gender and NML. Finally, training program was another variable of interest in this study due to earlier research showing that media literacy can differ for different fields of study (e.g., Arsenijević & Andevski, 2016; Hobbs & Tuzel, 2017).…”