Media Literacy

Getting Started

This SNAPSHOT takes the position that students need media literacy education as a sustained, interdisciplinary component of schooling

State of Media Literacy Education in the US 2019

This report expands civic education movement that incorporates teachers as principal agents of change.

Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

This report seeks to address this gap by offering a clear definition of Truth Decay and an examination of its drivers and consequences.

Truth Decay

Media literacy is the basis of allowing audience members to understand and critically absorb entertainment - and the best distributed insurance policy against misinformation campaigns. Learn more about protecting your audiences with these resources.

March 26, 2021

Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 26, 2021

American Views 2020: Trust, Media and Democracy

Gallup and Knight polled more than 20,000 U.S. adults and found continued pessimism and further partisan entrenchment about how the news media delivers on its democratic mandate for factual, trustworthy information. Many Americans feel the media’s critical roles of informing and holding those in power accountable are compromised by increasing bias.

March 26, 2021

Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 26, 2021

Media Polarization “A la Francaise”?

Institute Montaigne investigated whether a similar phenomenon was at work in France. To this end, it led an in-depth study in partnership with the Sciences Po Médialab, the Sciences Po School of Journalism as well as the MIT Center for Civic Media. It also benefited from data collected and analyzed by the Pew Research Center*, in their report News Media Attitudes in France.

March 26, 2021

Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 26, 2021

Political Polarization & Media Habits

This report is part of a series by the Pew Research Center aimed at understanding the nature and scope of political polarization in the American public, and how it interrelates with government, society and people’s personal lives.