Media Literacy Quotes:

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

- Linda Ellerbee

topic: Kids, Media, Differences, Mass Media, Media Literacy

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves

- Henry Jenkins

source: Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.170, NYU Press

topic: Writing, Media, Assuming, Media Literacy

All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.

- Astra Taylor

topic: Technology, Media, Stuff, Media Literacy, Materiality

I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

- Neal Stephenson

source: "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines". Interview with The Associated Press, May 10, 1995.

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Media, Media Literacy

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

- George Lucas

topic: Writing, Technology, College, Digital Divide, Media Literacy

We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of us would've recognized the threat that Trump posed from the beginning, and (B) no one would have been surprised at the bigotry that was in the DNA of his campaign.

- Jennifer Pozner

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Thinking, America, Dna, Media Literacy