Practice on Media Literacy Basics
Do you remember the media literacy basics?
By now, you must have become an expert!
If you still need some reminder, here they are the basics in bullets:
Media Literacy: Seven basic skills
- Analysis,
- Evaluation,
- Grouping,
- Induction,
- Deduction,
- Synthesis, and
- Abstracting
Media Literacy: Five basic concepts
- All media messages we receive are constructed by someone
- The creative language of media messages has its own rules
- Different people interpret the same media messages in different manner
- Media messages embed values and points of view. ..
- A large percentage of media messages aim at gaining profit and/or power.
Media literacy: key questions to ask with any media message
- Who created this message?
- What techniques does the message use to attract my attention?
- How different people understand the message in a different way?
- What kind of lifestyles, values and points of view does the message represent or promote?
- Why was this message sent?
- What is omitted from this message?