Media (Digital) Literacy

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Media refers to all technological resources that transmit messages, and literacy refers to the ability to read and write, encode and decode symbols and analyze messages.

Media literacy is a fundamental and crucial skill in the digital age, and it is inevitable. It is the ability to reach, analyze, evaluate, produce, and create media that every individual needs to develop in the 21st century. When individuals develop this ability, they can be able to understand the complex messages that they receive from media technologies such as television, radio, newspapers, the Internet, magazines, books, billboards, music, and all other forms of media.

Media (Digital) Literacy contributes to these areas 

Individuals that have enough media literacy can:

  • Learn to think critically in terms of which pieces of information are true or not, analyze the information available critically, decide which messages make sense, etc.
  • Become a smart consumer of information that is available on the media in terms of choosing their resources wisely and deciding which pieces of information are real.
  • Create media responsibly and sensitively in terms of using media to share and create content and information, and communication.
  • Understand the author’s goal in terms of what the author wants readers to take away from the media resource.

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