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title: Multimodal Mindset Toolkit – GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
description: "**active citizenship** - an umbrella term for the acquisition and exercise of rights for civic and political participation**creative drama** - is a type of theatre used for educational purposes that helps children work on social skills and academic subjects using…"
url: "https://multimodal-mindset.eu/cs/docs/multimodal-mindset-toolkit-glossary-of-terms-and-abbreviations/"
updated: "2023-11-23"
category: Result II
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# Multimodal Mindset Toolkit – GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

**active citizenship** - an umbrella term for the acquisition and exercise of rights for civic and political participation**creative drama** - is a type of theatre used for educational purposes that helps children work on social skills and academic subjects using theatre games and improvisations while being led by a trained instructor
**digital media** - any form of media that uses electronic devices for distribution
**digital storytelling** - a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to create and share their stories online
**hashtag** - a word or phrase preceded by the symbol # that classifies or categorizes the accompanying text (such as a tweet)
**Maslow's hierarchy of needs** - a model for understanding the motivations for human behaviour
**meme** - an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) that is spread widely online especially through social media
**media literacy** - the ability to critically analyse and evaluate the messages conveyed through media
**multimodality** - the combination of multiple sensory and communicative modes, such as linguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, audio
**multimodal text** - a text that creates meaning by combining two or more modes of communication, such as print, the spoken word, sound, and images
**social media** - a collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication, community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration
**stealth marketing** - a method of advertising in which the consumer is often not consciously aware that she is being subjected to advertising
**Ss** - students
**tall story** - a story that is difficult to believe because what it describes seems exaggerated and not likely to be true
**traditional media** - media which includes radio, broadcast television, cable and satellite, print, and billboards

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