What is media literacy?“Media literacy” in this context refers to the medium of delivering messages (print, graphics, animation, audio, video, Web sites, and so on), the crafting of the message for a particular medium—the graphic “look and feel” of a Web site, for example, and the impacts the media message has on audiences. As the SARS team members demonstrated, it takes a high level of media literacy to select the right medium for a particular topic; obtain the proper permissions to reuse others’ material; design and create Web pages, graphics, animations, videos, and games (including selecting the right digital tools for the tasks); and even choose the appropriate communication methods to promote their work to other students.（ Trilling and Fadel P66 )Therefore, I think that media literacy is to create an equal and fair platform through the dissemination of information to effectively obtain, analyze, comment, and disseminate information. At the same time, it enables people to correctly judge and evaluate the meaning and functional literacy of media information, and effectively create and disseminate information.
Why is it important?
Media literacy can enable people to understand basic media knowledge and how to use media. You can also learn to judge the meaning and value of media information. And learn the knowledge and skills of creating and disseminating information. Let us know more about how to use mass media to develop ourselves. Media literacy includes the ability to accept media products and the ability to look at the content of the media with an independent and critical perspective and the ability to use the media constructively. Media literacy is not only about using The needs of the media should also be part of the quality of citizens in modern society.
Why is it dismissed?
Media literacy is easy to ignore because most people on social media show an untruthful side because there is an untruthful side, so they express their ideas at will, so they don’t take media literacy into account. And social media is now widely used in business, many of them to attract attention, gain attention, create business value, and therefore give up authenticity.
Why should you aim for varied views but the factual consensus in your PLN?
Everyone has different ideas and perspectives on issues, so perspectives may not be the same, but it depends on how we treat different perspectives. If we can absorb different perspectives and understand the perspectives of different perspectives, we can expand our horizons, if we reject different viewpoints, it will affect our ability to look at the problem objectively. The ability to reach a consensus in PLN for different viewpoints also reflects the inclusiveness of PLN.
References
Smith, J. (2021, June 6). EDCI 338 – media literacy with Julie Smith. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57r3-aEnci0.
Trilling, B., & Fadel, C. (2009). 21st century skills: Learning for life in our times. John Wiley & Sons.
I agree with the idea of “Media literacy is not only about using The needs of the media should also be part of the quality of citizens in modern society”, Media literacy is quite important for those people who are getting information from social medias and I think the education of it should be pervasive.
Hi Allen, I love your detailed definition of media literacy. I also agree that it allows people to have an effective judgment of media information. The most important contribution of media literacy is its influence on objectivity-people stop viewing news with biases. Thus, it enhances their judgment.