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Assessing Media and Information Literacy: Teenagers’ Practices and Competence in Information Search and Multimedia Creation

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Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ECIL 2021)

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This article introduces the theoretical framework, method and first results of an international study on the assessment of teenagers’ Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in online information search and multimedia creation in four French-speaking countries. The results presented focus on the levels of general MIL competence self-reported by Belgian and Swiss adolescents, the relationship between their competence and their media and information practices, and the influence of gender on their self-reported competence and practices.

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    Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, University of Rouen-Normandie, France, and University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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    All correlations analyses presented in this article used Kendall’s tau-b correlation coefficient for non-parametric data. For all correlation coefficients reported, p < .05.

  3. 3.

    Due to the large number of possible correlations between the 22 variables covered in this section, only coefficients equal to or greater than .25 will be detailed.

  4. 4.

    In both our samples, confidence intervals computed at a 95% confidence level for each proportion showed no overlap. Hence, all proportions were significantly different.

  5. 5.

    Due to the large number of tests, we will not report U statistics. All gender differences cited in this section were statistically significant at p < .001 unless otherwise specified.

  6. 6.

    All p < .001 except for school websites in Switzerland: p = .013.

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The work reported in this article is funded in part by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS, under contract T.0082.18. Pierre Fastrez is a Senior Research Associate from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS.

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    Pierre Fastrez & Julia Bihl

  2. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Denise Sutter Widmer

  3. Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Nathalie Lacelle & Eve Gladu

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Fastrez, P., Sutter Widmer, D., Bihl, J., Lacelle, N., Gladu, E. (2022). Assessing Media and Information Literacy: Teenagers’ Practices and Competence in Information Search and Multimedia Creation. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Ünal, Y., Boustany, J., Kos, D. (eds) Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_40

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