The Role of Public Education in the Enhancement of Media Literacy

Abstract

The media environment is changing greatly in our advanced information-oriented society. Recently, human rights violations by the media and other kinds of human rights violations using information and communication technology have become important issues. Among other kinds of human rights violations, cyber-bullying among children has become a serious problem. This problem suggests a lack of proper media literacy education. Media-related human rights violations are mainly caused by a lack of awareness of human rights and a lack of a sense of morality. Therefore, this papers aims to establish a further protection of human rights, and proposes how to put this into practice by firstly, establishing media literacy education as an important element of public education and secondly, improving its effectiveness by making media literacy education obligatory in school by studying how it has been done in foreign countries.