Young people, media competence and participation
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Young people, media competence and participation
Ulrike Wagner
The contribution presents selected results of an empirical study on how adolescents use media, in particular how they handle with new media structures like podcasts, and describes a framework of media literacy / media competence regarding some of these new media developments. This framework refers to the discourse about Medienkompetenz in the German-speaking countries which is based on the work of Baacke (1973) and the term communicative competence of Habermas (1971). Communicative competence means the ability to participate in social communication, in the sense of understanding it, intervening in the processes and thus forming it. Following this definition media literacy / media competence refers to the usage of media structures to participate in social communication. The empirical results show that the usage of media is related to the conditions of the life world (German: die Lebenswelt) of individuals (e.g. their educational background, their social environments and relationships, ...). The focal point for the discussion is how to integrate the discourse about social inequaltities and disparities into concepts of media literacy / media competence.
Here some links to media projects conducted by the JFF - Institute for Media Research and Media Education:
"Internetradio und Podcasts – neue Medien zwischen Radio und Internet. Eine explorative Studie zur Aneignung neuer Audioangebote" Ergebnisse/results: [1]
Gewaltig daneben?! [2]
D-A-S-H - Für Vernetzung gegen Ausgrenzung / Network against exclusion: [3]
Ohrenblick - ein Handyclipwettbewerb mit begleitenden Workshops / contest and workshops for creating mobile video content [4]
