Reducing the Damage of Cyberspace on Young People Through Media Literacy

Table 1: The most important stages of development in media literacy (Taghizadeh, 2010)

History	Communication space	New Skills	Social and cultural implications
Classical period	Verbal communication and gestures + invention and spread of alphabetic writing	Dominance of oral language and gestures	Organizing and supporting knowledge
First Industrial Revolution & Renaissance	The invention and spread of book printing and newspapers	Alphabetic skills	Creating the origins of philosophical and scientific explanations
The second industrial revolution	The rise of electronic media: phone, video, radio and television	Strengthening and expanding literacy	The progress of science and empirical philosophy
Information Society	Digital media and the Internet	Mainstream education	Media and consumer societies (Audience)

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