media literacy

A term for critical thinking used by people who learned everything they know from video essays on YouTube.

Getting a joke is media literacy. Being good at Zelda is media literacy. Seeing this post is media literacy.

by Cranes June 21, 2023

media literacy

A shitty buzzword thrown around by pseudo-intellectual Reddit and Twitter users when parroting their unoriginal analyses of movies, games, tv shows, etc. that they stole from their favorite E-celeb on YouTube. They use it to insist that the shitty goyslop they consume is more profound than it really is in order to make themselves appear like intellectuals and farm upvotes on Reddit and/or likes+retweets on Twitter from other impressionable retards who read their posts.

A: "If you realized why Ellie let Abby go at the end of The Last of Us Part II, then congratulations on having basic media literacy."
B: "Fuck off you pretentious faggot..."

by wtrbrth March 1, 2024

Metascientific Literacy

The ability to understand and critically evaluate the structures, practices, and social dynamics of science itself—not just scientific facts. A metascientifically literate person knows how funding shapes research agendas, how publication bias distorts literature, how peer review works (and fails), and how scientific consensus is built. They see science as a human institution, not a monolithic truth machine, and can navigate its complexities as both producer and consumer of knowledge.

Example: “Her metascientific literacy meant she didn’t just read a study’s conclusion; she checked the journal’s reputation, the authors’ conflicts of interest, and the sample size—understanding science as a process, not just a result.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Metaepistemological Literacy

The ability to reflect on the standards and frameworks used to evaluate knowledge claims. It involves understanding that epistemology itself has different schools (foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, etc.) and that criteria for “good knowledge” are not universal but historically and socially situated. Metaepistemological literacy helps one recognize when debates about knowledge are really about unstated assumptions.

Metaepistemological Literacy Example: “Her metaepistemological literacy revealed that the argument over ‘evidence’ was actually a clash between two epistemological traditions—one demanding randomized trials, the other valuing ethnographic depth.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Metalogical Literacy

The ability to understand and evaluate logical systems themselves—their axioms, rules, semantics, and limits. It includes familiarity with concepts like completeness, consistency, decidability, and the differences between classical, intuitionistic, paraconsistent, and modal logics. Metalogical literacy allows one to choose appropriate logical tools for different problems and to avoid treating one logic as “the” logic.

Metalogical Literacy Example: “Her metalogical literacy helped her see that the debate about contradictions was not resolvable by classical logic alone; she introduced paraconsistent logic to handle inconsistent information without collapse.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Metarational Literacy

The capacity to reflect on the nature, limits, and diversity of rationality itself. A metarationally literate person understands that there is no single, universal “reason” but multiple rationalities adapted to different contexts—scientific, legal, moral, everyday. They can evaluate when different standards of reason apply, recognize the historical and cultural formation of rational norms, and critically assess claims that equate their own rationality with Reason itself.

Example: “Her metarational literacy helped her navigate the debate between economists and ecologists: she saw that both were rational, but each operated within different frameworks of value, time, and evidence.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Media Literacy

A term used like a slur by Swifties who can’t understand criticism.

Taylor’s new album is meant to be bad, which is why it’s so good! People who think otherwise have no media literacy

by Okarun October 9, 2025