Information Overload as a Challenge and Changing Point for Educational Media Literacies

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Author(s): Sonja Ganguin (Leipzig University, Germany), Johannes Gemkow (Leipzig University, Germany)and Rebekka Haubold (Leipzig University, Germany)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title: Digital Multimedia: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3822-6.ch007

Keywords: Digital Media / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Multimedia Technology

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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.

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