The Status of Media Literacy in the Textbooks of Junior High School

The aim of the present study was to investigate the status of media literacy in the textbooks of the junior high school with a quantitative approach and content analysis method. For this purpose, 15 books of the junior high school were selected as the sample due to their relevance to the subject and were analyzed using a researcher-made media literacy checklist. The validity of the checklist was approved by five experts, and its reliability was determined through inter-rater agreement. Data analysis was done with Shannon entropy method and descriptive statistics. According to the obtained results, the theoretical dimension of media literacy had the highest frequency (41%) and the media consumption regime had the lowest frequency (1.5%). The results indicate an unbalanced attention to the aspects of media literacy, so the distribution of the components of media literacy needs to be reviewed.