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Originally Posted by MTVN

Not sure why media studies is always considered so worthless, I think it's very relevant in the world we live in today

The world SOME of us live in - most of the world lives in poverty :

http://www.globalissues.org/article/...and-stats#src1

At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day in countries where income differentials are widening.

According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

How will media studies help them ?

Originally Posted by MTVN

And do you have proof that standards of literacy & numeracy has declined? That sounds like bull

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...eracy-numeracy

Poor literacy and maths skills leave teenagers ill-equipped

Some 22% of 16- to 19-year-olds in England are functionally innumerate – meaning their maths skills are limited to little more than basic arithmetic, researchers from Sheffield University discovered. This means their numeracy levels are at or below an 11-year-old's.

This is a higher rate of innumeracy than many other industrialised countries, the study of literacy and numeracy rates over the past 60 years found.

Meanwhile, 17% of 16- to 19-year-olds are functionallly illiterate – meaning they cannot handle much more than straightforward questions. It is unlikely, or even impossible, that they will understand allusion and irony, the researchers found. Their reading standard is at or below an 11-year-old's.

The researchers found teenagers' average reading scores had risen between 1948 and 1960 and remained "remarkably constant" between 1960 and 1988. Between 1997 and 2004, scores had "gently" risen and then plateaued. But they discovered little improvement in teenagers' writing between 1979 and 2004.

Given the increasing amount of "media" availability in the last 20 years in the form of cheap computer and communication devices, no improvement in reading, writing and 'rithmetic represents a comparative decline and is an indictment of the electronic age .....