Alireza Hoseyni Pakdehi; Hosnieh Al-sadat Shobeyri
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In different countries, media literacy education methods and success rates differ. For example, Canada, with its profound history in media literacy education, is the most successful country in the world, but despite widespread importance of media in Iran, media literacy education in this country is relatively ...
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In different countries, media literacy education methods and success rates differ. For example, Canada, with its profound history in media literacy education, is the most successful country in the world, but despite widespread importance of media in Iran, media literacy education in this country is relatively new.The present study compared performance of a model country in teaching media literacy (Canada) with a country new on this way (Iran). Therefore, the performance of Canadian Media Awareness Network that provides media literacy education via “Media Smarts Website” and Iranian “Media Literacy Website”, the only Persian website providing media literacy education, were compared using “content analysis" method. The main results are as follows: majority of the contents in Iranian Website were "informative" and "alarming", but most of the contacts in Canadian Website had features of a real “educational sources. Canadian Website developed educational contents using the theories proposed by media literacy experts; While Iranian website has not used these valuable sources.
Sarallah Shojaee; Tahereh Dehdari; Behnaz Douran; Karamat Noori; Mohammad Shojaee
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Background: Children are subject to more impacts by media violence due to their less mature cognitive development and experiences compared to adults. As a method to immunize individuals against media’s impacts, media literacy is able to develop critical thinking in its audience. The present study, ...
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Background: Children are subject to more impacts by media violence due to their less mature cognitive development and experiences compared to adults. As a method to immunize individuals against media’s impacts, media literacy is able to develop critical thinking in its audience. The present study, consequently, intends to determine efficiency of media literacy learning in lowering violent behaviors evinced by players of violent video games. Materials and methods: In this study, a number of 100 adolescent violent video gamers who referred to Qom game nets were selected by random sampling method and divided into two groups: intervention and control. They were asked to fill in questionnaires on their demographical information, Ahvaz Aggression Inventory, and Attitudes Towards Violence. After arrangement of courses required for media literacy acquisition, educational intervention was undertaken in three sessions as group discussions and lectures for intervention group. To analyze the data, parametric tests such as independent T, paired T, and chi-square were used employing SPSS software V20. Findings: Results of independent T-Test showed that neither groups had significant differences in their average aggressiveness and attitude to violence scores in pre-intervention phase. After termination of intervention phase in one month, however, results showed that aggressiveness cases and positive attitudes to violence were diminished in intervention group as to control group (P=0.0001): Conclusions: Acquisition of media literacy can reduce effects of video games on aggressiveness level of young players. This is essential to lodge basics of media literacy in textbooks and produce preventive programs in this regard.
Leila Niazee; Esmaeel Zarehee Zavaraee; Khadijeh Aliabadi
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This research aims to study the effect of Information and communication technology-based media literacy education program on knowledge in the second grade of elementary school students in Tehran of the academic year 2015-2016 .The research methodology was quasi-experimental. Research statistics subjects ...
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This research aims to study the effect of Information and communication technology-based media literacy education program on knowledge in the second grade of elementary school students in Tehran of the academic year 2015-2016 .The research methodology was quasi-experimental. Research statistics subjects include all of the students in the second grade of elementary school in Tehran. With using Purposive sampling method, 40 students were selected and randomly were replaced in experimental and control groups. Data Collection tools used in this study was the Researcher made test of knowledge That the reliability of the test knowledge calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0/79. After the pre-test on both groups, the independent variable (education by multimedia) were administered in six sessions on the experimental group and the control group were well away from the independent variable. After completing the education with multimedia, post-test was conducted in both of groups. For analyze data, statistics methods were used both in descriptive and inferential levels.the results showed that the students’ knowledge that have received material through multimedia method have learned much more. The results showed that ICT-based media literacy education increases students’ knowledge about media literacy.The results are in line with other researches, showed that the use of ICT in media literacy education and knowledge in relation to the basic elements of media literacy.
