Digital Dystopia
What is media? and What does it mean to be Media Literate?
Thirty years ago someone would say, “The media can range from the newspaper in your house, to the radio in your car or even the TV in your living room”. Today someone would say the “internet”, because the internet now offers us content from all of these forms of media. Everywhere you look there is a screen; availability is 24/7/365.Everyone’s a reporter, a journalist, a photographer, and a film maker. Everyone has something to say, a story to tell. Everyone’s an “expert”. So questions like “Who decides what is fact or fiction? Or who can I trust? Start occurring. To me at least, the media is a host of ever changing, ever-developing interfaces, impacting the world around us. Media literacy has even evolved quite drastically; it used to be that if you could read and write then you were a media literate. But the definition of media literacy has expanded because knowing how to communicate across all mediums is an essential in this century. Medial literacy raises the capacity of citizens, to participate life on another level and political policy for the better. Media literacy is more positive than negative because it enhances justice, freedom, awareness, and steward ship. Before, people were really able to get away with mostly anything. But now everybody is a filmmaker, reporter, a journalist, a photographer and so it’s not that easy anymore. Our world has changed so much that maybe thirty years later someone would need to get a digital citizen ship to participate in the world of the internet.
You control the media
Social media
media literacy
What is Dystopia?
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