Media+LIteracy+Definition


 * __DEFINITION__**

[|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy]
 * Web definitions **
 * Media literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. ...

[|www.medialit.org/reading-room/language-media-literacy-glossa…]
 * The process of understanding and using the mass media in an assertive and non-passive way. This includes an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the media, the techniques used by them and the impact of these techniques.

[|www.unesco.org/education/educprog/lwf/doc/portfolio/definitio…]
 * The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication and information in a variety of forms and means.

[|www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ms20/gloss.html]
 * An understanding of media methods and messages.

[|www.carroll.edu/msmillie/busethics/glossary.htm]
 * This is a "literacy" or knowledge of media--teaching people (consumers) how to read the messages conveyed through visual images, music, and advertising. ...

[|mediaethnographies.wordpress.com/glossary/]
 * The characteristic of persons who grasp the distinction between what the media are designed to do and what they really do do. One who is media-literate has the skills to decode or deconstruct the media by reading between the lines or digging beneath the superficial.

[|danlaughey.com/key-terms/]
 * The notion that uses of media texts and technologies enable the learning of critical abilities, skills and competencies.

[|www.aect.org/edtech/ed1/11/11-10.html]
 * The ability to learn from media; capable of comprehending filmic code. See Literacy and Visual Literacy.

__** media 1 |ˈmēdēə|**__

noun


 * 1** plural form of **medium**.


 * 2** (usu. **the media**) [treated as sing. or pl. ] the main means of mass communication (esp. television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet) regarded collectively : [as adj. ] //the campaign won media attention.//

USAGE The word **media** comes from the Latin plural of **medium**. The traditional view is that it should therefore be treated as a plural noun in all its senses in English and be used with a plural rather than a singular verb: //: the media// **//have//** //not followed the reports// (rather than //:// **//has//** //not followed//). In practice, in the sense ‘television, radio, the press, and the Internet, collectively,’ **media** behaves as a collective noun (like //staff// or //clergy//, for example), which means that it is now acceptable in standard English for it to take either a singular or a plural verb.

__** literacy |ˈlitərəsē; ˈlitrə-|**__

noun

the ability to read and write.

• competence or knowledge in a specified area //: wine literacy can't be taught in three hours.//

__** design |dəˈzīn|**__

noun


 * 1** a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made //: he has just unveiled his design for the new museum.//

• the art or action of conceiving of and producing such a plan or drawing //: good design can help the reader understand complicated information | the cloister is of late twelfth century design.//

• an arrangement of lines or shapes created to form a pattern or decoration //: pottery with a lovely blue and white design.//


 * 2** purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or material object //: the appearance of design in the universe.//

verb [ trans. ]

decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object), typically by making a detailed drawing of it //: a number of architectural students were designing a factory// | [as adj. with submodifier ] ( **designed**) //specially designed buildings.//

• (often **be designed**) do or plan (something) with a specific purpose or intention in mind : [ trans. ] //the tax changes were designed to stimulate economic growth.//

__** cycle |ˈsīkəl|**__

noun


 * 1** [often with adj. ] a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order //: the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle.//

• the period of time taken to complete a single sequence of such events //: the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days//

• technical a recurring series of successive operations or states, as in the working of an internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave //: the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust.//

• Biology a recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal //: the storks' breeding cycle.//

• Biochemistry a series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused.

• Ecology the movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth. See **carbon cycle**, **nitrogen cycle**.

• Computing a single set of hardware operations, esp. that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again.

• Physics a cycle per second; one hertz.


 * 2** a complete set or series //: the painting is one of a cycle of seven.//

• a series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence //: Wagner's Ring Cycle.//


 * 3** a bicycle or tricycle.

• [in sing. ] a ride on a bicycle //: a 112-mile cycle.//