Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Media Literacy
I think that i've aqcuired my sense of media literacy more in college than in all of my previous education. To me, high school was just more of a time of getting the basic education of reading, writing, history, and math; it was not a time when we focused on how the media influenced our daily lives. It seems that the media itself shapes our own media literacy. They provide us with a mold of their own to get the people to think a certain way. Once in college i realized more and more that you cannot always trust the media for what it says to be true. Often their are political beliefs about what we see and do not see in the media (including magazines, television, and newspapers). To understand media to it's fullest is a very tough task. If i really want to find a message in the media i have to sometimes view the media over and over again. Also, media is always changing and therefore understanding it will always be a constant process
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Well, i come from a very small town where everyones business is everyone else's and what was going on outside of the town was of no concern to anyone and that went for the school as well. We had channel one like a lot of high schools did and that as much media that we got. I mean we had classes like current events but they were taught by the football coaches and they didn't care so we didn't care. The jest of my media literacy had to come from watching the news while my dad watched it. So sad, so sad.
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