Blog#8

– What is media literacy?

Media literacy is a person’s attitude and ability to recognize, judge, and use media. It refers to people’s ability to choose, understand, question, evaluate, create, produce, and respond discursively when faced with various information in the media.

– Why is it important?

Therefore, the cultivation of social media literacy is relevant to all of us, which not only helps us create a harmonious online environment, but also makes us more comfortable and efficient when surfing the Internet. Especially for teenagers, who are in the critical period of physical and mental development, the correct guidance of the Internet environment is especially important, and the high attention to media literacy can strengthen their ability to discriminate information and cultivate their critical thinking, which is beneficial to a rational online communication atmosphere.

– Why is it dismissed?

In the information society, the amount of information is increasing at an exponential function, and people are enjoying unprecedented information convenience. The development of Internet technology, the continuous updating of self-media communication means, especially the realization of interactive communication means, enable the public to use interactive network platforms such as microblogs to realize the dissemination of information in large quantities. In the huge and complex information dissemination network, the massive information dissemination also means the existence of a large amount of superficial and redundant information. Modern information technology has greatly shortened the timeliness of information dissemination, and information from half an hour ago may become tomorrow’s yellow flowers, and a large amount of outdated information is deposited in the communication network. Superficial and vulgarized information dissemination has become a persistent problem in self-media communication. In order to increase the number of clicks, social network platforms are full of unpleasant photos, vulgar and provocative words, and offensive remarks, which not only seriously affect the effective transmission and processing speed of information, but also greatly increase the difficulty for users to obtain and use effective information.

– Why should you aim for varied views but the factual consensus in your PLN?

With the widespread use of information technology in society, the issue of information ethics has become increasingly prominent. The public in the era of self-media communication is directly involved in the production and dissemination of information, and coupled with the untimely and inadequate supervision, more and more moral and ethical problems gradually appear in the information exchange, which affects the harmonious development of society. Avoiding and reducing the negative influence of self-media and building a harmonious and healthy cultural communication environment are important issues facing self-media communication at present. However, external norms can only work through internal factors, and the public can only correctly understand the whole picture of the event or product information if they learn to adhere to ethics in the interactive exchange of information, and interpret and navigate in the flooded sensual information space.

References:

Media Literacy – Facts Matter – Course YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/57r3-aEnci0
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