Academic media literacy and the role of universities

• Authors: Thomas Pfeffer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since tertiary education is the highest level of the sequentially structured formal education system, one can argue that universities should help their students to achieve the highest levels of literacy. In this sense, academic literacy comprises all skills necessary to competently read and write academic texts. Comparing different information and communication technologies in a historic perspective, it becomes obvious that digital media create new media formats and academic genres. Academic media literacy therefore could be interpreted as the competence to critically use and produce new types of academic artefacts. To be able to teach and train these skills, universities have to become more aware of the requirements of scholarly media use and media production.

Keywords

EN

Academic literacy; media literacy; student centered learning; university organization

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 83-93

Dates

published

2014-05-10

Contributors

author

Thomas Pfeffer

• Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems, Austria

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2014.10