Open dialogues about media literacy and factual information can create conflict; why does this happen?
Open dialogues about media literacy and factual information can create conflict because people on social media like to cope and not accept facts. Social media users like to see what they want to see and thus the social media platform will give them mostly what they want. However, when contrary facts appear and when people say things they don’t believe in, social media users are quick to turn down the fact and disagree. This is also occurs commonly because social media platforms are for profit meaning they will ensure that they provide you with the information you want to see. They will spoon feed you information that will benefit themselves as a company.
What is the benefit of having a PLN that values media literacy?
Having a PLN that values media literacy is very important because media literacy allows us to open a window where we can quickly and effectively gain a lot of information. Media literacy also allows us to differentiate between good information and bad information by understanding which sources are more credible. Good media literacy will also better help the PLN reach the target audience as it is easy to have your social media information lost in the ocean of posts.
Hi Kevin, I enjoyed reading your blog post, especially about how some people on social media hold biased opinions and perspectives that prevent them from accepting factual information. I agree that many individuals often see what they want to see and ignore or disagree with content that go against their beliefs. It’s even worse when media outlets perpetuating this behaviour in order to gain profit. Thanks for sharing!
HI kevin,
I defintely agree with you that companies really feed not what you need but what is benefitial for them. Now a days company tend to value their influence not by how many truth /fact they are able to share to the other people but how much money they make. therefore this conlict of truth and media literacy is created. Overall a reall insightful post!
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for sharing your post!
I agree with you that people will only believe what they want to believe and will refuse to accept the truth if the opposite is presented. Of course, having a good media literacy is very important, it will help us distinguish between true and false information.