Boomers Need New Skills: Teaching Modern Media Literacies for the New Media Landscape

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Author(s): Barbara Ruth Burke (University of Minnesota, Morris, USA)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 42
Source title: Modern Media Literacy: Generative AI, Social Media, and the News
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tom Hallaq (Kansas State University, USA)and Jacob Groshek (Kansas State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-0872-2.ch006

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Digital Media / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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Educational opportunities for older adults seeking to understand today's media are necessary. It may be assumed Boomers already know media literacy, but the skills of their youth do not match contemporary citizenry needs. Contrasting the American media landscapes of the 1950s-60s, the 1970s-1990s, and the 2010s-today, this chapter highlights media literacy challenges US Boomers (aged 60 and older) now face. Explanations of varied contemporary pedagogical approaches for teaching about media and algorithmic literacies are introduced, with the Critical Media Literacy perspective being promoted as the broadest and best option to apply to educate this vital population today.

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