Comparison and study of media literacy and information literacy among male and female students

According to the UNESCO’s report, medial literacy and information literacy should be considered as the two main rights of human. UNESCO also pointed out that media literacy and information literacy play have the great importance in the twentieth century. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to Comparison and study of media literacy and information literacy among male and female students of Ardebil’s medical Science University. Survey-analytical method was used as the research method. Research tool included Ashrafirizi& et.al Questionnaire (2013). Validity was confirmed by experts in information science and knowledge science by 79/0 percent. Reliability of the questionnaire was achieved by Cronbach's alpha with 89/0 percent. The study population consisted of students of Ardebil’s medical Science University. In this study, stratified random sampling method was used and the sample size was 322 people, according to Cochran formula. Collected data was analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics of Tukey test and ANOVA. Result showed that the mean of media and information literacy among students of Ardebil’s Medical Sciences University was 3/45 ± 0/54 which is above average and relatively high. The results also showed that there was no significant relationship between degree usage of media literacy and information literacy with gender.