Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research.

IF 4.4 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Human Communication Research Pub Date : 2025-03-28 eCollection Date: 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1093/hcr/hqaf004

HyunYi Cho, Christopher J Carpenter, Wenbo Li

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Abstract

We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were larger for media-over behavior-relevant outcomes and for social over health topics. Stronger effects were found for knowledge outcomes at both immediate-post and delayed follow-up assessments. Attitudes and critical beliefs predicted behavior. No substantial decay in effects was observed between immediate-post and follow-up assessments for multiple outcomes but not for behavior. Interventions targeting social media showed smaller effects for some outcomes compared to those that did not. Online delivery had smaller effects for various outcomes compared to in-person delivery. These findings suggest challenges and opportunities regarding digital and social media for the interventions. Dose was inconsistently linked to outcomes. No significant relationship was found between study year and effect size. The heterogeneity of effects observed across variables suggests a need for more parsimonious frameworks in media literacy research.

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媒介素养干预：40年研究的元分析回顾。

我们对1983年至2023年的160项媒体素养干预措施进行了全面的荟萃分析，发现总体上有积极的效果。媒体相关的结果大于行为相关的结果，社会相关的结果大于健康相关的结果。在即时和延迟随访评估中，发现对知识结果的影响更强。态度和批判性信念预测行为。在多项结果的即时后评估和随访评估之间没有观察到实质性的衰退，但在行为方面没有观察到。针对社交媒体的干预措施对某些结果的影响要小于不针对社交媒体的干预措施。与面对面授课相比，在线授课对各种结果的影响较小。这些发现表明了干预措施在数字和社交媒体方面面临的挑战和机遇。剂量与结果的关系并不一致。在研究年份和效应量之间没有发现显著的关系。观察到的跨变量效应的异质性表明，在媒体素养研究中需要更简洁的框架。

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Human Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Human Communication Research is one of the official journals of the prestigious International Communication Association and concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication. It is a top-ranked communication studies journal and one of the top ten journals in the field of human communication. Major topic areas for the journal include language and social interaction, nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and new technologies, mass communication, health communication, intercultural communication, and developmental issues in communication.