Media Literacy Education for Youth in Bandung City

Keywords

Media Literacy, Young Age, Media Education Design

Abstract

This research on media literacy is expected to provide an overview of how media literacy process can be applied to young people or young age. This research used qualitative approach in the form of case study. The research was conducted by designing a workshop on media literacy. The workshop consisted of basic skills and advanced skills. Basic skills include exploring, recognizing symbols, recognizing pattern, and matching meaning. Advanced skill include: (1) Message focused skill which refers to the skills to interpret the meaning of mass media messages, which include analysis, compare/contrast, evaluation, and abstraction; (2) Message extending skill which refers to the skills to explain and summarize received mass media messages. This research used case study method and in obtaining the data the informan used as samples are five respondents and one key informan acting as media literacy expert. This reseach found that media literacy program for young people was important and gave positive impact on their knowledge, understanding and skills in using media, especially social media which nowadays is often used as information source by the public particularly by those within 14 – 21 rage of age. The workshop gave significant contribution in spreading information on the use of mass media especially social media among young people.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Cecep Darmawan
AU  - Hana Silvana
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Media Literacy Education for Youth in Bandung City
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 142
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902383
ID  - Darmawan2017/11
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