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Media and Information Literacy
Media and Information Literacy
INFORMATION
LITERACY
The Evolution of
Media
“Young people do not
read newspapers
anymore; they visit online
sites.”
Marshall McLuhan (1969)
a Canadian communication
theorist who provides a clear
story on how media evolved
through technological
determinism
Technological Determinism
on this same age laid the groundwork for industrial age
ELECTRONIC AGE
period characterized by the
dominance of the electric media such
as telegraph, radio, film, telephone,
computer and television.