MIL in Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia: Approaches to Measuring Effectiveness in the Academic Literature Approaches to Measuring Effectiveness in the Academic Literature
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This article reviews recent scholarship on the effectiveness of media information literacy (MIL), advanced as a tool to fight an “infodemic” in Southeast Asia. The latter refers to the overload of false information that has consumed Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic, ravaging the world since January 2020 and is reaching an endemic stage by mid-2022. Asia Centre has suggested that of all of the remedies available to combat this infodemic, media literacy may be the most effective for the long term, in combination with other approaches including accurate information sharing by authorities, fact-checking, take-down action by technology/social media companies and quality journalism. This article probes scholarship on the effectiveness of MIL to distil models of MIL and an assessment of its utility in light of extant studies. The review is based on desk research using publicly available and specialized databases to identify academic articles on MIL.
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