Quotes About Media Literacy

#1. Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead,

Danah Boyd

#2. All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.

Astra Taylor

#3. I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Chelsea Clinton

#4. I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves

Henry Jenkins

#6. Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

Linda Ellerbee

#7. More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

Michael K. Powell

#8. The literate mind has sown the seeds of its own destruction through the creation of media that render irrelevant those "traditional skills" on which literacy rests.

Neil Postman

#9. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Coward

#10. To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alan Coren

#11. Once implemented, the method played a crucial role in increasing literacy rates, and making Chinese more accessible to Western media and scholarship.

David Moser

#12. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung

Pearl S. Buck

#13. I come from generations of farmers.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

Robert Metcalfe