So what IS critical media literacy? The differences between media literacy and critical media literacy.

While Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share (2005) have continually tried to define critical media literacy and its core concepts, the idea continues to go mostly ignored in both scholarly work, as well as in educational settings. A quick internet search for media literacy yields countless websites that focus on media literacy projects and how to get students to evaluate and create new forms of media; unfortunately, these popular sites continue to leave out the critical piece of the puzzle, resulting in a generation of young people who are unable to make sense of the images and content that they are exposed to and interact with in our media-saturated world. This paper seeks to define the difference between the two practices, as well as outline why we cannot leave out the critical in critical media literacy