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.
Dorothee Meister folgerte auf der Basis einer theoretischen Diskussion über das Konzept der Medienkompetenz im vierten Jahrbuch zur Medienpädagogik, dass «die Herausforderung für die Pädagogik im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kompetenz und Performanz [besteht] und damit in der ‹Nichtidentität› eines universalen Regelsystems und regelgeleiteter aktueller Strukturierung in einer konkreten Sprechsituation» (Meister, Hagedorn, und Sander 2005, 171). Diese Schlussfolgerung ist kein triviales Zwischenfazit, sondern die Formulierung einer zentralen und zeitlosen Aufgabe der Medienpädagogik. Nach wie vor – und vermutlich auch mehr als je zuvor – steht die Medienpädagogik im Allgemeinen und das Konzept der Medienkompetenz im Speziellen vor der Aufgabe, einen tiefgreifenden Wandel von medientechnologischer Kommunikation pädagogisch zu begleiten. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, die inhärenten Strukturen der Konzepte Medienkompetenz und Media Literacy offenzulegen, um damit das «Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kompetenz und Performanz» (ebd.) am Beispiel der medienkritischen Decodierungsfähigkeit zu lockern. Diese ‹Lockerung› folgt der Idee einer medien- und subjektspezifischen Ausdifferenzierung von medienkritischer Decodierungsfähigkeit mit Fokus auf digitalen Medien und medialen Handlungsräumen. Dazu werden zum einen die drei theoretischen Konzepte – Kompetenz-Performanz, Medienkompetenz und Media Literacy vorgestellt. Zum anderen wird am Gegenstand von Medienkritik die Bedeutung von medien- und subjektspezifischen Einflüssen auf die Dimension der medienkritischen Decodierungsfähigkeit diskutiert.
Media and media appropriation can be the basis for diversity and also for commonalities, describing target groups more exactly than the chronological age approach does. This paper demonstrates why it is necessary to expand the view of target groups beyond mere classification in the category of age, especially when the focus is placed on the elderly. It establishes that there are other possibilities than age to find also appropriate classification categories for the elderly by means of media appropriation combined with Bourdieu’s forms of capital. This paper suggests that, regardless of whether media use, education or media literacy, if the media research is intended to reach fruitful ends, its instruments need to be developed with media specifically in mind. In this case, they need to be subject-orientated in relation to the media appropriation of the elderly.
Age is a static socio-demographic dimension, but is it still a useful category for media pedagogy and media competencies? This article is a theoretical examination of the fixation on age in German media pedagogy research and practice. The thesis of this article, therefore, is that this dominant focus on age should be shifted to neglected contexts and ways to discover them. The key point is to distinguish cases in which it makes sense to focus on age groups in media pedagogical research and practice from those in which it is discriminatory and less important than other factors. Therefore, it analyses historical developments that justified concentration on the subject in German media pedagogy and, thus, the overemphasis on age concepts.
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