Abstract
Children are growing up in a culture of digitality, one infused in digital communication in and out of school (Faverio & Sidotti, 2024; Stalder, 2018). They are immersed in a digital networked world, which plays a significant role in how they develop their literacies and identities (Cannon et al., 2022) across languages. To help them participate as “active thinkers and citizens in their own right” (Wall, 2016, p. 86), educators could consider the potential of critical media literacy in language education as a pedagogical response to the commercial exploitation of information, and the liberatory potential of critical thinking and creative expression. This essay presents a conceptualization of media language education as a form of global citizenship education, with the potential to create opportunities for learning and empowerment. We explore how such a concept can uphold commitments to children’s rights and empower youth in the present and for the future.
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Recommended Citation
Matz, F., & Share, J. (2025). A children’s rights approach to critical media literacy in language education: Developing children’s agency in a digital networked world. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(3), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2025-17-3-2
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