Information and communication technology has become important in activating the ability to access and utilize digital media while producing information in various fields accordingly. This study aims to analyze the current status of concepts and policies surrounding media literacy and seek solutions for improvement. We must first establish the concept of media literacy by distinguishing between the ability to read and produce media critically and the ability to handle digital well. By understanding digital literacy within the category of media literacy, the terminology of literacy needs to be clarified.
In order to increase the narrative competency of learners who have shallow and disorganized knowledge, opportunities to read linear text should be increased. Narrative competency is the ability to reconstruct or deliver knowledge based on continuous and consistent understanding and experience. As digitalization progresses, more reading and discussion are required to develop imagination and creativity to subjectively reconstruct the situation. In a digital society, media literacy is a series of behavioral abilities that completely assemble fragmented information, encompassing technical manipulation and message reconstruction. As a result, we must improve media literacy by restoring analog formats.
Media literacy is ultimately the ability to understand and communicate with others. Here are some suggestions for increasing media literacy. First, We can define media literacy as ‘the ability to effectively handle and communicate information’. Second, appropriate indicators for diagnosing the level of media literacy should be constructed. Third, Generation integration programs should be activated so that analog literacy and digital literacy complement each other.