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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
The Literacy of Adults Must Be Added to Media Literacy
Rafael Ahumada Barajas
(National Autonomous Univesity of México)
Abstract: An ethnographic investigation was carried out in the municipality of the state of Mexico in the suburbs area of Mexico City to a group of adults who are in the process of literacy. The intention, besides, to know the use and consumption that make of the television was to establish the contribution of the television content in the perception of its social reality, how much the reading that they make of the television broadcasts allow them to develop a sense Critical and reflective To understand their environment, since they lack a school education, are the audiovisual media (radio, film and Television) to which they have access and these have become their literacy. However, they have not been literate to make a critical reception of the media in general and in particular television. In Mexico the illiterate population represents a significant proportion, it is estimated, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) that 6% of the population at national level has no education of any kind. If we take into account that according to the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT), the ones who watch television the most are the sectors of lower socio-economic resources, we have that the vast majority of the viewers are illiterate functional who read the audiovisual content with a lack of intellectual training and a limited cultural spectrum.
Key words: literacy, adults, media
