What is Media Literacy?
Do you have the ability to sift through and to analyze the messages that inform, entertain, and sell to us everyday?
What do I need to think about?
- Who created this message?
- What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
- How might people understand this message differently?
- Why is this message being sent?
- What point of view is represented in, or omitted from, this message?
What should I know to make an informed decision.
- All media messages are 'manmade'.
- Messages shape our perception of reality.
- People can hear/see the same message differently.
- Media messages are about making money.
- All media messages express a point of view.