MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY: A TOOL FOR GLOBAL UNITY

With the ever changing world that people experience right now, communication is a vital factor on how the world emerges as it is right now. With the different kinds of media popping out anywhere, it is also important to consider how users should use media responsibly and exercise the user’s literacy on media and information. The current media and information affects communication because the media provides and receives information for everyone wherein various people can take advantage of in expressing their ideas and thoughts which compliments the information that is being used when communicating in social media platforms.

It is important to note that when one is communicating in the media, it is a must to be literate in information to have a much more meaningful and impactful communication. When someone is media and information literate, he/she can produce a much impactful topic that will certainly impact and empower the global community by using a powerful weapon in today’s generation which is words. The value of today’s word is very great that it can even do some imaginable things with just a single word, which is why the importance of media and information literacy is vital in order to avoid misunderstanding and conflicts. People who are media and information literate in today’s generation can teach the future generations to be able to continue and do the sole purpose of using media to disseminate and empower people and also use media responsibly to have a better communication. It is important to make people understand that the true purpose of why there is a media is that, it is to convey our communication and to connect to each other all over the world but not the other way around.

Since the media and information have a great impact on communication, people can conclude that being literate is a great weapon in order to spread the right information and to avoid being incorrect in terms of the information that everyone disperses. Having the right communication being carried out, media users can make sure that the impact that it produces can benefit the global community in a good way and can make sure that the right communication is secured in the nearest future.