What is Media Literacy and why is it important for you as FCM students to have it?

The meaning of Literacy:

• the ability to read and write
  wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• the ability to read; understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literacy

So, What is media literacy? From my understanding, Media literacy is like the understanding of media. What is there to understand about media? It is the ability to analyze and be wise when seeing the message of the media. It is knowing what to believe, knowing the right questions to ask and knowing who the message is intended for.

Why is it important for us FCM student to have it?

As a FCM student, We work very closely with media. Media literacy is very important for us. It's not about knowing the right answers but asking the right questions. It is making the right choices and knowing what intentions of the message. Media literacy is actually also like critical viewing. It is to critically analyze that particular media and seeing through the hidden messages. Media literacy is a skill that can be acquired through experience, Learning to analyze, interpret, evaluating the many different kinds of media of various genre, forms and many more.