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A look at the historical roots of media literacy calls attention to the availability of archives and manuscripts that provide the foundational primary source materials upon which researchers can build upon. At the Symposium, the Elizabeth Thoman Media Literacy Archive at the University of Rhode Island was dedicated.
20 sty 2014 · In an era dominated by visual media, this study examines the effects of visual literacy training on the ability of English teachers at Kalam Kudus Elementary School in Bali to create...
In September 2013 media literacy educators and students converged on the URI campus to attend a symposium to honor Thoman and to address the “Historical Roots of Media Literacy.” Conference organizers were pleasantly surprised to find that they had registered twice the number of expected attendees.
The term “visual literacy’ was first used by the writer John Debes in 1968 (1968). Messaris (1995) defines visual literacy as the gaining of knowledge and experience about the workings of the visual media coupled with a heightened conscious awareness of those workings.
This article argues that media literacy is best conceptualized as a thinking disposition that evaluates the construction of media form, content, and impact over time as both an art form and an industry, as well as a cultural, social, and political force.
Media literacy educators have long been re- sponsive to changes in media and technology systems. We can see some elements of this in an issue of Visual Education from 1922, where a teacher from Indianapo- lis describes the use of motion pictures as a means to teach writing to Grade 8 students.
The origins and history of Visual literacy (VL) are summarized in this article, from the 1960s writings of John L. Debes, Marshall McLuhan and others of the Rochester School, to the influence of the Internet in the 2000s.
