Media literacy is an expanded concept of literacy that includes the ability to access and analyze media information, as well as the ability to create, reflect on and take action to harness the power of information and communication to change the world. Media literacy is important because the current era of big data has created a phenomenon called an “information cocoon.” Almost all the videos or content we watch are what we are interested in because big data analyzes our interests and hobbies. As a result, we rarely receive something we don’t like. To avoid these information cocoons, we need to actively share more information with people and listen to their different points of view. We cannot simply assume that information intermediary, whether traditional news or social media, can solve our problems for us.
In PLN, different perspectives and people’s different experiences can lead to new ideas and ideas. If we had a richer, more diverse view in PLN, our audience would be much better. This means that we can have more opportunities to learn in different fields and angles, and we can also cooperate.
The public dialogue between media literacy and factual information can conflict. Because of the level of education received by each person, each person’s ideas will be different. In everyone’s life experience, they always feel that they are right, so there will be conflict. Therefore, some people only choose the news media that can meet their needs and refuse to listen to the news they disagree with.
The advantages of having a PLN that values media literacy are:
1. Verify the accuracy of the information and understand the views of others, exercise critical thinking
2. Encourage creating and sharing multimedia resources
3. Tells users how media affect our culture.
4. Encourage people to actively participate in public affairs
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