Media Literacy

Media Literacy 

Media literacy is a term used to critically evaluate the information we receive and read from the internet, this information should be carefully processed when writing an article or opinion about it. For example, https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/news/digital-media-companies-found-lacking-in-helping-users-understand-the-online-environment and https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/news/ofcom-research-nearly-half-of-people-across-the-uk-nations-have-come-across-false-or-misleading-information-about-covid-19. Now before reading any type of media or information on the internet you must always ask what, why and who is giving me this information, who is it aimed at and is it truthful. You must ask yourself these questions because you could easily stumble across the wrong information and it may or may not be sincere, being media literate is a skill everyone should have so you find the information you're looking for. 

When I read the two articles the first one was aimed at anyone with little understanding about the internet and privacy protection, it said about 62 per cent of whom were surveyed felt a little concerned about misinformation on the web. This is quite concerning because the web is something meant for you to find any information without problems. Now that should encourage people to find out if the information they were trying to find was reliable but to do so they must always be thinking about who wrote this piece and who is it aimed at. Double-check and see if their information is reliable by digging further into the internet and finding even more information about the topic, if the facts check out then the written piece should be good!



 Legal And Ethical Considerations

When talking about media literacy fact-checking is not the only box you need to tick, there are legal and ethical problems you should always think about and firstly one of them is copyrights and the right to post something whether it's yours or not. If you want to post something online that doesn't belong to you have to get some sort of permission from the owner but there is a loophole and that's when the owner allows anybody to use their content so that means there's no need to cite your source. When the owner doesn't allow that then you must find a way for citing your sources and this can be done by using citing generators. Secondly, you should be very ethical when doing anything with media because your false knowledge or information can lead people in the wrong direction and this is when you should take a step back before you post anything and ask yourself, will this be useful. I think legal and ethical considerations shouldn't just apply to digital media but to everybody who uses social media daily.

The link below is something very helpful if you find this interesting, let me know about your thoughts!
https://www.medialiteracyireland.ie/news/new-research-published-by-ofcoms-making-sense-of-media-programme

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