"Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication."

- The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), a 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to advancing media literacy education since 1997.

"In its simplest terms, media literacy builds upon traditional literacy and offers new forms of reading and writing. Media literacy empowers people to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators, and active citizens.

"Media literacy is interdisciplinary by nature. Media literacy represents a necessary, inevitable, and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic environment and communication cornucopia surrounding us."

NAMLE, Media Literacy Definied