What is Media Literacy?
Media literacy is essentially the ways in which people can access, critique, create or evaluate media. In other words, media literacy consists of an individual attitude and outlook, and judgment as it relates to the use of media. Based on one’s outlooks on media, this then affects one way of understanding, questioning, evaluating, producing, etc, a response when they are faced, and given all sorts of different information within a media platform.
Why is media literacy important?
Media literacy is relevant to all individuals who are on and use media therefore making it an important trait for all those involved. Having the ability, as individuals to note and identify the different messages in different types of media that are being presented helps us to develop and recognize the other points of view of others, and consume their emotions and opinions smarter, and more efficiently. Having this skill to recognize and understand others’ points of view is a major skill that will be useful in not only our internet life but our lives as a whole. For teenagers in the present day, who have been surrounded by the use of online platforms their entire lives, and are currently in the transitioning times of emotional, physical, and mental development it is important for their full understanding of the online world they have been introduced to is proper and developing a great media literacy will help them succeed.
Why is media literacy dismissed?
As the internet world is everchanging, there is been deemed an era of information explosion. Due to this information overload, when individuals look something up or stumble across information they can not be sure if these answers or information they have is true or not. This is also noted as excess information when an individual can not be certain if the information is truthful or not.
Why should you aim for varied views about the factual consensus in your PLN?
On some platforms information, and facts are hidden or not presented to the public with the hopes to please a certain audience. As the use of information technology in society is exploding, the spread of information through different platforms such as different news outliers, as mentioned before may only give half of the information in hopes to please a given audience. More problems have resulted from this as information is being spread not being 100% truthful. Because of this moral and ethical issues are beginning to rise and overall are beginning to affect society as a whole. Society must learn and understand that they can only understand the entire picture of an event if they accompany and adhere to ethics in the continuous interactive exchange of information within our society. There needs to be an understanding in knowing what to trust to give us the full true story and navigate ourselves through this by developing and properly using the idea of media literacy.
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21st Century Skills – Learning for Life In Our Times Trilling, B & Fadel, C – Digital Literacy Skills – Media Literacy pp.66 https://go.exlibris.link/B5rkkLw7
Media Literacy – Facts Matter – Course YouTube
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Now the Chinese social media network are become more and more strict. People have rights to report the fake news and you can’t even post the fake news successfully. For example, there are some platforms which can donate money for the people who is sick and poor and do not have ability to heal. The platform need to verify the truth situation of the family, or you might be tricked.