In this post, we will explore the role and purpose of media literacy in society in history and today. Examples of media, mass media communications and media literacy will be explained and evaluated in order to form an understanding of why media literacy is critically important for the today life.
First of all we have to answer this question “what is media”? And how does it differ from mass media? Media is the means of communication that reaches or influences people, such as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines. Mass media does the exact same, but with a goal of reaching much larger numbers of people. Both play an enormous role in our lives, despite the fact that media consumption often goes easily unnoticed. But what to do with all this information? That's where media literacy comes in!
