Media Literacy

MEDIA LITERACY

It is said that media literacy means different things to people. Some  define media literacy as a study of media such as websites, Apps, messages and recording artist so they will understand the value of messages that are being sent to them . Media literacy is important because our technology is now advanced to provide us with us with easy ways to use platform media literacy will assist us to resolve information that we come across and occupied us with lifelong skills which we will also use in our adult life. Moreover, More information is released every single day since the day you were born till today. If we can look the information that has been generated from your birth the rate is increasing. Mainly because the number of people producing information is growing (Census Berea, 2017). Social media is still growing faster everyday in the media field. Most of our time we now spend it on media and as time goes on many people are being exposed to media. Media has become the greatest part of our lives.  The entire world is all connected through media (Emarketer,2014).There are defination of the purpose of media literacy.

• Media literacy develops your critical thinking skills when it come to different types of al media.

• It provides you with an understanding of how media messages shape our human lives.

• It gives all people the tool to advocate for changed media literacy.

• Lastly it creating media responsibly.