media literacy

Now we live  a media literate life and make media literacy a living enterprise.so what's media literacy?Just what it sounds like: the ability to interpret and create personal meaning from the hundreds, even thousands of verbal and visual symbols we take in everyday through television, radio, computers, newspapers and magazines, and of course advertising. It's the ability to choose and select, the ability to challenge and question, the ability to be conscious about what's going on around you and not be passive and therefore, vulnerable.

Media researchers now say that television and mass media have become so ingrained in our cultural milieu that we should no longer view the task of media education as providing "protection" against unwanted messages. Our goal must be to help people become competent, critical and literate in all media forms so that they control the interpretation of what they see or hear rather than letting the interpretation control them. Len Masterman, author of Teaching the Media, calls it "critical autonomy." ⁴

Other definitions point out that media literacy is not so much a finite body of knowledge but rather a skill, a process, a way of thinking that, like reading comprehension, is always evolving. To become media literate is not to memorize facts or statistics about the media, but rather to raise the right questions about what you are watching, reading or listening to.⁵

baraka

A few days ago the teacher showed us movie of baraka, through the film I draw the following some of the ideas.The film tells the story of the earth and the human evolution, and the relationship between the human and the environment for the theme of a documentary. Although the movie no dialogue, also does not have the fervor the plot ups and downs, but for we live in prosperous society, this movie is a  make of peace of mind, return to the nature of the film. In this film tells the story of people and nature in this land have experienced a lot of suffering. If you use dialogue to tell the movie,not  enough to show its wonderful place, perhaps this is the director want to express the Silent wins the sound place, there are times when we only need to see with their own eyes, with their own heart to experience, this is the value of the film. The film originated from different countries, but it tells the story of each s each country's history civilization. So this is a worth attentively watching movies