1. Media literacy is when a person consumes media, and understands not only the message, but the influences and implications, or hidden purposes of a message. Originally I figured media literacy was being able to understanding the meaning of media messages. However, I now understand that media literacy in not only understand a message, but knowing what impact it is meant to have on the consumer, what the message sender is trying to convey, and what they are actually conveying. Also media needs to be purposefully and carefully consumed. Consuming media out of habit or in a state of automaticity with no purpose leaves the consumer open to attenuating to messages they normally would ignore. Now that we understand what media literacy fully entails, we are able to put it in practice for ourselves. While we could use co-viewing or active mediation to help spread media literacy, not everyone is open to being taught media literacy, it is better to direct people to classes or groups that teach media literacy so they can seek it out if they desire. By telling others about media literacy, hopefully we can increase people’s awareness increase media literacy in our community.
2. The first level is cognitive effect. This level is essentially planting information in our minds. An example of this would be gaining information from a textbook and forming that information into knowledge. The attitudinal level can affect our values, opinions and beliefs. For instance I may go see a movie I don’t think will be good, and leave thinking that it was the best movie ever. The emotional effects happen after being exposed to media that taps into our emotions. If I’m feeling unmotivated, I’ll probably turn on the Rocky sound track or something to make me...
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...ased my awareness of the vast amounts of messages, both apparent and hidden, that I am bombarded with. It has made me aware that any time I come in contact with media, whether purposefully or unintentionally, the message is often still received and can have an influence upon me. Now that I am aware of this fact, I can be more purposeful about my consume media, and use media to best benefit me. Also this course has taught me the physiological, emotional, and cognitive effects media can have on me, and how knowledge structure works. Lastly it helped me better understand the education system and how some of the concepts we learned in class have been or could be applied to increase student learning. Lastly I learned not only that a class such as this exists, but also now I can explain what media literacy is, and hopefully get others interested in classes such as this.
Throughout the years, media has advanced along with technology. They now range in sizes, small to large, and weight, heavy and light. The means of communication we have used evolved from newspapers to televisions, social media, and the list goes on. They aid people in keeping us connected and keeping them informed of new products and of the environment. Media is an important part of the lives of neighbors, friends, family members, and the rest of the world. It is how they all stay connected. significant why it matters Why: mold the children molds the world. Affects how they act, feel, act towards others, and how they react to different events in their lives.
With college right around the corner and taking a college course gave a real sense of how college classes are going to work giving me an edge over all of the other students going to college that didn’t take a dual enrollment course. Dual enrollment was honestly one of the best decisions I made in my academic career because like what I was saying this class taught me the inner workings of how most assignment are going to be turned in, what it means to be self-reliant/ on your own have no help with assignment from your parents, experiencing a course that only a handful of assignment rather than a ton of assignment ends up making up over eighty percent of your grade (getting you to work extra hard so you won’t fail) and finally that you have to actually interact with the professor/teacher if you need help or are having trouble with an
The media can come in many forms. From social media, magazines to Television. Although there are fundamental differences the core purpose of all media is communication. Whether it be to inform, entertain or advertise.
Many people today may not realize how much the media, Internet, and Social Media impacts their lives because of how reliant we’ve become on them. In “Of Losers and Moles: You Think Reality TV Just Writes Itself” by Derrick Speight, “Mind Over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker, or “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., each story may talk or argue about some issue that society faces in relation to media. In the first article I read by Derrick Speight, the main goal was to explain to the audience that reality TV is real, but in the scheme of the production, the writers and producers must transform the reality of it into a story line. In the next reading by Steven Pinker, the purpose of
In the end this assignment was one that was not only eye-opening, but also one that had some personal fulfillment was well. I was able to truly access my own personal usage and see not only how it compared to others but also show me that I needed to really think and question myself about if I truly need to use Media as much as I currently do. Along with this the Media silent day also showed me that we don 't need to be connected with the media for our lives to function normally and that in fact we as humans can be much more productive without it, something that I was able to experience first hand over these 5 days. What I learned about my media consumption I know I will carry with me not only throughout this year but hopefully my entire life as well.
According to Ministry of Education’s Resource Book “Media literacy is one of the few instruments that enables teachers and students to challenge the great inequalities in knowledge and power that exist between those who manufacture information in their own interests and those who consume it innocently as news or entertainment.” Media literacy is a course to help students separate fantasy from reality in the media. Media literacy is a set of skills that enables people to critically analyze messages in the media. By using an inquiry-based instructional model, media literacy encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read.
Media or medium of communication has been conceptualized to effect and drive information to the greater masses because it’s the venue where information can be linear form of communication. This essay will discuss what it is meant by media according to online Business Dictionary defines as the communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated.” This may include broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet, the Business Dictionary further includes in this definition.
Over the course of this class I have pieced together many things about my own life that before went unnoticed. I am now able to see things in a bit of a different light. Now that I have been introduced to the realm of psychology I understand some of the reasons for behavior around me. I have learned that there is a reason for most everything and a lot of our behaviors and mental processes can be explained through psychology. Studies have been conducted for many years to try and pinpoint the source of our behavior and it is not something that most people think about every day. Having a better understanding of why we operate the way we do will help me to better understand myself and the others around me.
“Today, media, culture and society are really inseparable and one cannot exist without the other.” In today’s times, media has become complex institutions that shape and are in turn shaped by society. The media facilitates communication between sender and receiver and acts as a source of information and knowledge. When we compare ourselves to generations of the past, we as people of the 21st century have access to an enormous amount of information. Every day we see coverage of conflicts and disasters in places around the world and we are exposed to information on thousands of subjects ranging from politics to social problems to cultural problems and so on. We are constantly asking ourselves, what is it that gives the media so much power that we go about living our daily lives, influenced and dependent on the media? This essay will be exploring examples from the South African media relating to how in today’s times, media, culture and society are inseparable and how one cannot exist without the other.
Everyday we encounter the media in some form. It could be waking up to the sound of the radio, or passing billboards in the streets or simply just watching television. They are a lot of different forms of media, for example, verbal or written media, visual media and aural media. Examples of media would include newspapers, magazines, film, radio, television, billboard advertisements as well as the internet. Media studies came about because of the developments in mass communication and it provokes the generation of exigent questions about what we think we know as well how we came about knowing it. There are always changes in the media and the term “media” refers to the many ways of physically forming meanings as well and carrying them. The term “media studies” on the other hand, means different courses priorities different media; different theories and different learning outcomes (Bazalgette, 2000).
Media has grown drastically over the last 100 years, and we have become accustomed to it being a part of our everyday lives. Media is such an influential part of our society that we forget that not all media is created equally. Media has become so widespread that we might be oblivious to the messages right in front of our faces. Media such as television, newspaper, radio, Internet, social media, and billboards have created an information epidemic that has the ability to influence a person’s thoughts and ideas. Media literacy is a tool that allows people to take information and evaluate it so they can form their own thoughts and ideas about the information presented to them. Media literacy allows people to decipher information that is opinionated,
Media literacy is how the consumers of the particular piece of media studies or analyzes the message that is behind said media. To put it in simpler terms, it is easy to understand media literacy as the ability to read a book, understanding how to direct a website, or post on social media. It is also when you can recognize a scary
What is Media? Did you ever wonder how we can find out information we need, or just want to know what is going on around the world? We use it in all different types of ways to retain the knowledge and communication that we use on a day to day basis. Media is one of the many ways of communication that is used to receive and deliver information to influence people across the world. The use of media is communication being advertised through televisions, radios, internet, magazines and newspapers. These are by far the main resources of how we use media to reach our audiences. Media can be classified as a forum of information that is ready to be released into the world. How we do it is entirely up to the person who withholds that information.
The mass media has played a key role in shaping people’s lives. The modern society’s use of mass media including TV, radio, newspaper, as well as print media has largely influenced people’s ideas regarding themselves and the society at large. This is evident from their behavior towards themselves and their community as well as their treatment of the environment. While some experts believe that the media is to blame for most of the negative behavioral traits among the active members of society, the majority agree that the media makes people understand and develop a positive sense of association with their society within which they live, making it easy for them to identify and get their role in it.
Throughout the previous years, individuals view media for further entertainment rather then the actual message portrayed. We simply observe or recite if the news media is outrageous or affects to the lives of the icons presently in the interest. Currently, the image of privacy connected with individuals providing newscasts has entirely disappeared. In the news media the images have become more important than the message itself due to mass media. Audience and visual images have become more common because the brain reads the images rather then the words. We take caution about what we see; then what is essentially being shown throughout media. The newscast today is being more of entertainment purposes then the actual message shown. Nowadays what we see on display changes anything we recognize.