著者

水越 伸 村田 麻里子

出版者

東京大学社会情報研究所(現:東京大学大学院 情報学環・学際情報学府)

雑誌

東京大学社会情報研究所紀要 (ISSN:0918869X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.65, pp.37-67, 2003-03-30

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This paper will outline a media literacy program unique for being held in a museum. The program which the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Citizens and Cultural Affairs entrusted to MELL Project(Media Expression,Learning and Literacy Project) is a pilot study carried out at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. The significance of this study is that while media literacy programs are mostly held in schools or computer classes, the study has proven museum to be vital environment in developing media literacy. Museums are media which connect visitors to objects, exhibits and subsequently knowledge; thus the visitor's experience in a museum entails reading and decoding such exhibits and objects. Museums also reflect numerous ideologies from both within and outside. To such extent,museums are in essence like any other media and should be exploited in the context of media literacy.In this study,two types of programs were developed. One is a workshop in which the participants learned the idea of 'structure'and'sequence'of information by interpreting and arranging sets of photos chosen from the museum collection. The other program was carried out during the 'period of integrated study' of Ebara Junior High School. The students learned the mechanism of 'visual image' by creating their own claymation and experiencing the visual image devices in the museum collection. Visual image is often associated with something only on television or the movies, but the program helped to dispel such assumptions.