Monday, March 16, 2009
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What is Media Literacy?

Based on what i've read from the internet. Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in news and public affairs programming (and the reasons for such), and to understand how structural features -- such as media ownership, or its funding mode techniques) and understand the role of mass media and participatory media in constructing views of reality. Affect the information presented. Media literacy aims to enable people to be skillful creators and producers of media messages, both to facilitate an understanding as to the strengths and limitations of each medium, as well as to create independent media. Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy. By transforming the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation (especially through commercials and public relations...

Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce a variety of media texts. Media education refers to the process of teaching media literacy. In the United States alone, there exists many different perspectives on how to media educate youth, but not all of them agree on what extent youth audiences are active participants. PLAY moves beyond a passive approach to media and youth.

Why Media Literacy is important for FCM students?
  • It's important for making media skills.
  • Experience all the arts as no other age has ever done.
  • The media are carefully planned, designed and constructed products.
  • Help us to understand the workings or our immediate world, and our individual places in it.
  • The media help us to learn technology by adopting the leading edge of modern technological innovation.
  • The media interpret our world, it gives values and ideas.
  • It's explain to us how things work.
Lastly, check this out: Theory and Practice of Media Literacy.

"Theory and Practice of Media Literacy Education" which was taught by Professor Renee Hobbs in the Fall of 2006 at Temple University's School of Communication and Theater. Students enrolled in the course in the Fall of 2007 continue to develop, modify and expand the site, contributing their own understanding of the course readings and critical analysis.

Personal reflection on media culture class:

Overall, i enjoy the class when the lecturer show the movies. Sometimes i feel sleepy because i don't get enough sleep. The class also happening while the lecturer discussing on the topics. Basically, lots of students pay attention in class and i'm happy when there's no class for tutorial media culture. So that, i have much time to finish the assignment.:D
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