Media and Information Literate Individual

Media and Information Literacy provides answers to the questions that we all ask ourselves at some point. It recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at core of freedom of expression and information— since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions at user and producer of information and media content.

Information can be found at the libraries, community resources, organizations, internet and many more. Information is usual to disciplines, studying environments, and all positions of education in which it enables the learners to widen their investigations or learning skills and acquire their massive control of learning.

Media and Information Literacy as practiced on both personal and professional level

Media and Information literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgements as users of information and media, as well as to become adept creators and producers of information and media messages in their own rights. When we post something in media, we let the people judge and give their ideas to the picture or anything you post, and we don’t have any rights to get upset or angry if someone will make fun of your post because that’s what the media literacy do. And sometimes we should control or discipline our self not to post too much in the social media because as what everyone said, if you want to be respected, have some respect for yourself first. We should learned that not every moment in our lives, we gonna post it in social media directly even though it’s meaningless because some people doesn’t care about your life because they are busy doing in their own lives. We should post something important that can make sense to other people. We must use the media and information in important situations. Media and Information literacy can help us how we express the ideas or what we have gathered some news today.

Media and Information literacy as expression of freedom of speech

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold an opinion without someone holding any interference to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Media and Information Literacy includes a combination of competencies. One should be literate in media and information to voice out their opinion properly. Every person has a right to speak out his or her opinion or voice that surrounds them. Many media and information users use social media as their alternative instrument to express or tell in real life or in face to face. Media, news, and opinions spread like wildfire, and by that there are some people that will criticize you about your opinion, but there will also some of them that will sympathize you. Media information literacy is cornerstone to meliorate access to information and knowledge as well as freedom of expression and satisfactory education.

Media and Information Literacy as tool for civic responsibility and nation-building

Using media and information literacy as a tool for civic responsibility and nation-building is very effective. Citizens use technology in order to make their work easily. Technology and people nowadays can’t be separated, most of the time we depend on the technology we are using. We are using networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, and because of that, we could learn more things from other people in different nations which is applicable to our national economy.

If I am a media and information literate person, I can contribute to my community by using my knowledge responsibly and properly. I will start in myself first so that others will follow because if you want that to happen you would start in yourself in order to increase their trust and they will follow you. I will try to convince the people around or the ones who are close to me and show them the advantages of becoming a media and information literate person. Show them the proper way to use media and information to influence the people on how to use media and information in a proper way. I will use the media in a disciplined citizen of this country, post some information that will help to build a good nation that is disciplined and develop our country to be better.

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