Media literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate all the symbol systems of a society.
ML can make a passive relationship active. Citizens for Media Literacy places special emphasis on number 6. Any ideas or discourse outside these parameters are deemed irrelevant and forced to the margins, where they eventually appear in obscure journals, on an occasional talk-radio program, or on theInternet. Media literacy, as envisioned and practiced by Citizens for Media Literacy, seeks to empower citizenship, transform a passive relationship to the media into an active, critically- engaged force to challenge the traditions and structures of a privatized, commercial media culture in order to find new avenues of citizen speech and discourse. The Harvard Institute endorsed the goal of media literacy to empower citizenship.