The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US

Drake, Amanda Purington; Masur, Philipp K.; Bazarova, Natalya N.; Zou, Wenting; Whitlock, Janis

doi:10.1080/17482798.2023.2230493

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“…The former can be considered problematic because the engagement or non-engagement in a certain online activity cannot be automatically equated with high or lacking levels of respective skills. Performance tests, in contrast, can provide more objective information about the participant's skill level (e.g., advertising, cyberbullying, privacy;Purington Drake et al, 2023), but cannot be transferred to different contexts beyond the specific focus of the study. Furthermore, they are also limited to application among smaller samples as their development and implementation are labor-intensive.…”

Section: Measuring Social Media Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study

Wendt,

Naderer,

Bachl

et al. 2023

Social Media + Society

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When being online, young users are often confronted with insulting, hateful, or misleading messages. To handle these dark forms of participation, it is essential to equip them with resources that support their social literacy in today’s complex online environments. In the present article, we deployed a previously established scale on self-perceived participatory-moral literacy and conducted a broad online survey study with 1,489 adolescents and young adults aged 16–22 years ( M = 19.74; SD = 1.65; 51% female) across eight different European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom). The results provided a configural identical model of participatory-moral abilities, motivation, and behavior across the considered European countries. We could confirm weak invariance, satisfactory psychometric qualities, and convergent validity of the scale across the different countries. Implications for digital literacy research are discussed.

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Section: Measuring Social Media Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%