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What is a media literate person?

Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The internet has given us many opportunities to get different political, or social one. Media literacy is described as a user's ability to interpret media and control their uses wisely.

Being a literate person today means more than being able to read and write. In a world diverse with cultures, print texts, media, and technologies, a literate person needs to possess certain specific capabilities. Here are some of the things that a media literate person shoul do:

1.Literate individuals demonstrate independence with text.

2.Literate individuals build strong content knowledge.

3.Literate individuals respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.

4.Literate individuals comprehend as well as critique.

5.Literate individuals value evidence.

6.Literate individuals use technology and digital media strategically and capably.

7Literate individuals come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

To truly be considered media literate today you must be able to create media in any format and speak to the media in any format. That means being equally comfortable behind a keyboard or in front of a camera. That means being equally comfortable whether you are creating your own social media video or being interviewed by a reporter for a traditional TV network broadmedia A well-prepared, media literate person of the 21st century needs to be able to blog, vlog, interview, be interviewed, podcast, webcast, telecommunicate and even host a multimedia press conferences.

Media literacy used to mean you could read a newspaper (this thing called paper that had news printed on it) and watch TV newscasts and have some understanding of what is going on. These days, even kindergarteners can do that.

A well-prepared, media literate person of the 21st century needs to be able to blog, vlog, interview, be interviewed, podcast, webcast, telecommunicate and even host a multimedia press conferences.

Learning how to communicate through the media seems mysterious simply because here are relatively few books written on the subject and even fewer courses on it taught in school. Plus, those who have stumble upon the secrets of how to communicate effectively through the media are often reluctant to reveal that it is a skill anyone can learn. The more the skill s presumed to be rare, unique and un-teachable, the more those with media skills can have an advantage over the rest of the world.