Beyond Cynicism: How Media Literacy Can Make Students More Engaged Citizens In 2008, then Ph.D. student Paul Mihailidis found in in a multi-year study that university students in a media literacy course gained the ability to effectively analyze media messages and adamantly praised media literacy, but also expressed considerable negativity about news media's role in society.

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