Fanning the Flames: The Freedom Project Blog

9.22.2006

Student Media Literacy

By Shawn Healy
Part 2 of the follow-up survey (see post on 9/19) commissioned by the Knight Foundation was released this morning with a focus on student media literacy in the Information Age. The data reported is mildly encouraging, as more than half of high school students access the Internet at least once weekly to monitor the news. Top sources include news feeds offered by Google and Yahoo, national television news web sites, and local newspapers. Web blogs registered a close fourth. Traditional media rated highest in terms of credibility, as television news and daily papers far outdistanced Internet news sources and web blogs. However, nearly half of all student supplement these sources with entertainment news options like the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and even South Park.

The most concerning data relates to the 49% of students who fail to monitor the news even once a week, including 29% who never tap into media sources for this purpose. Reading behind these numbers, there may be additional evidence of the so-called "digital divide," where some students have access to the Internet at both home and school, while others our locked out of the Information Age. Apathy is another concern, where in the words of Neil Postman, we are "amusing ourselves to death" through entertainment options and completely ignoring the events taking place in the "real world." Clearly there is work to be done on both fronts.

To access the study click on the following link: Future of the First Amendment Follow-Up Study, Part II.

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SHAWN HEALY

Managing Director

McCormick Freedom Project

Shawn is responsible for overseeing and managing the operations associated with the McCormick Freedom Project. Additionally, he serves as the in house content expert and voice of museum through public speaking and original scholarship. Before joining the Freedom Project, he taught American Government, Economics, American History, and Chicago History at Community High School in West Chicago, IL and Sheboygan North High School in Wisconsin.

Shawn is a doctoral candidate within the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received his MA in Political Science. He is a 2001 James Madison Fellow from the State of Wisconsin and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science, History, and Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Fanning the Flames is a blog of the McCormick Freedom Project, which was started in 2006 by museum managing director Shawn Healy. The blog highlights the news of the day, in hopes of engaging readers in dialogue about freedom issues. Any views or opinions expressed on this blog represent those of the writers alone and do not represent an official opinion of the McCormick Freedom Project.



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