I just joined this class – Emergent Media. According to the Dr. Magolis’ syllabus, the course develops a students’ media literacy knowledge and skills – preparing them for an expanding technological society.
According to Potter (2016), Media literacy is a set of perspectives that we actively use to expose ourselves to the media and interpret the meaning of the messages we encounter. Perspectives are formed from knowledge structures – built with skills, information and drive (personal locus).
Information saturates our lives. We need to understand how to process it. In order to begin this process we need to understand the different tools to transmit this information. One such tool is a blog. This week we created our own blog.
I’ve never been a person who read blogs, so I’m not that keen on writing a blog. However, I’ll keep and open mind to see how it develops.
Potter, J. (2016) Media literacy. 8th edition. Los Angeles, CA: Sage
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