According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term literacy can be defined as “the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write”, but also describing it to refer to a person’s knowledge within a particular subject. (Dictionary Online, 2010). This shows that literacy is far more broad than the ability to read and write; literacy can mean a multiple different things for any given field. Media literacy in particular has different meanings to different people, their perspectives can depend on many aspects including: experiences, accessibility to technology, age, and culture. Media literacy, to me, is the ability to not only understand the capabilities that technology and media has to offer, but rather understanding how to use them and using them to your advantage. I believe that with technology making a relatively new appearance within society and education, the younger generations will be brought up being media literate and doing great things with media and technology in the future. Media is constantly evolving and becoming a dominant resource within society and education; a dominance that will make media literacy more aware within society.
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