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Definition of Media Literacy Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry-based pedagogic model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages.Critical analysis can include identifying author, purpose and point of view, examining construction techniques and genres, examining patterns of media representation, and detecting [|__propaganda__] , [|__censorship__] , and [|__bias__]  in news and public affairs programming (and the reasons for these). Media literacy education may explore how structural features—such as [|__media ownership__] , or its funding model-- affect the information presented.