Good to see that “media literacy” is becoming an established term, esp. in education as a “21st century skill”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy http://namle.net/publications/media-literacy-definitions/ I have obviously been campaigning about this for years here – most (if not all) AGI-ers are more or less media illiterate – think they can get by with maths, logic and algos –with the classic AI extensions of the 3 R’s - the old literacy – *20th century skills* - and without the new “imaginative media” of the new millennium. Not a hope in hell of that – look around just at how the world of computing is becoming ever more imaginative. P.S. It may not be clear from the entries above, but media literacy involves recognising the INTERDEPENDENCE and COMPLEMENTARITY of different media and literacies. The old 3R’s literacy thinks that they are all separate – that you can have words WITHOUT pictures and still know something – Chinese room style. Wrong. Media literacy also involves a revolutionary change from thinking about the *logical truth* of representations to their *pictorial realism* and other things undreamed of by logicians, like the *bias*/*angle*/*perspective* of representations.
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