The sociological consequences of media literacy on awareness of citizenship rights and democracity

The media literacy is considered as requirement in technology ear to train active and awarded citizens. The critical capability of media, skills to make programs and fair access to media and ability to control media usage are dependent on media literacy. A number of benefits of the media literacy can be mentioned such as helping to awareness and understanding of the citizens of receiving massages from the media, having a critical approach to mentioned massages, wanting a right from the media atmosphere and having a share from the media atmosphere in accordance with the acceptance or the lack of acceptance. The goal of current research is to investigate sociological consequences of media literacy on awareness of citizenship rights and democracity among Ahvaz people were more than 18years. The research conducted as applied through descriptive-analytic research. It was a survey and used researcher-made questionnaire. The population of those were more than 18 years included 780728 citizens, after that 392 participant selected by Cochran formula. The results revealed that level of media literacy in Ahvaz was average. There was direct and significant relationship between media literacy-independent variable-, awareness of citizenship rights and democracity-dependent variables-. In fact improving media literacy cause to improve dependent variables.