Remembering Identities: Accessing Media Literacy for Religious Communities

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Abstract

Digital Media have saturated culture, invaded values, and overwhelmed traditional information systems. To cope with influences of media, educators and scholars have suggested the need for a "media literacy" that can teach youth to properly "read" media. But media also affects our identity and sense of meaning. I suggest that media literacy study, while valuable, is best understood when viewed in the context of identity and the role of community.

Author

• William Riddell, Stockton Christian Life College