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A média munkásai és a médiatudatosság
Media Workers and Media Literacy

Author(s): Tibor Koltay
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: professional journalism; citizen journalists; media literacy; news literacy;information literacy;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a follow-up to a recent writing by Géza Balázs, titled “The end of Traditional Media and its Consequences”. Displaying varied arguments, but without aiming at providing an exhaustive explanation, it is asserted that – despite imminent threats – it is premature to decide if the traditional, professional journalism will be supplanted by civic journalism or by social media outlets. Beside of this, it is pointed out that media workers, regardless of their being professional or citizen journalists, as well as media consumers need to be guided by media literacy, news literacy and information literacy.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 5-14
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian