Book chapter
A Promising Future: U.S. Public Libraries as Informal Media Literacy Educators
Media Literacy Education in Action
2014
Abstract
Since their initial founding in the mid-nineteenth century as institutions of informal learning, a major focus of U.S. public libraries has been on providing the
public with opportunities for literacy improvement via books and other information media. Today’s public libraries provide their communities with access to a
wider range of media than ever before, from books, to movies, to music, to video
games, to free Internet access, and they blend these various media into their public programs and services. As one of the few remaining commercial-free “third
places” (neither work nor home) (Oldenburg, 1989) in contemporary society,
public libraries continue to focus much of their programs and services on literacy
efforts with the intent of creating a more informed citizenry. As such, U.S. public
libraries are ideally suited to providing media literacy opportunities as informal
media education outside of the school environment.
Metrics
7 Record Views
Details
- Title
- A Promising Future: U.S. Public Libraries as Informal Media Literacy Educators
- Creators
- Denise E Agosto - Information Science (Informatics)
- Contributors
- Belinha S De Abreu (Editor)Paul Mihailidis (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Media Literacy Education in Action
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85122387791
- Other Identifier
- 991019173804804721