Digital Media

 In today’s blog I will be discussing why we study digital media and provide a proper introduction to the idea of digital literacy.  To which I have found a few videos in YouTube that will explain why digital literacy is extremely important.

 The first video I watched was the TEDTALK with Doug Belshaw where he talks about the essential elements of digital literacy as well as the importance of digital literacy. He said that “It takes a lot of definition to decide what counts as being digitally illiterate or literate” I believe that’s what he meant; he also mentions about a quote from UNESCO taken from the 1950s saying “Literacy is a characteristic acquire by individual in varying degrees from just above more to an indeterminate upper level. Some others but it is really not possible to speak of illiterate and literate persons as two distinct categories.” To which this was true as before I did digital media, I had no clue that digital literacy existed and know how to define it but the quote that UNESCO has written summarizes the meaning of digital literacy for me. Belshaw also mentions that mozilla which are the people behind making fire fox talks about creating a generation of web makers and have a tool call hackasaurus which has these x-ray goggles so what it does is basically see behind the web and see how you can remix it using HTML. This affects your identity because every time you’re given a new tool it gives you a different way of impacting the world. The one thing that stood out to me is that when he said that in order to develop digital literacy is to focus on their interests and try and get them to get this intrinsic motivation to want to develop those digital skills for themselves. The eight elements of digital media are: cognitive, constructive, communicative, civic, critical, creative, confident and cultural.

I also didn’t know that digital literacy also includes social media so in that case, I have used social media in order to communicate to other people online through communities that I find interesting. You need digital literacy in order to become employable as the most job needs some form of digital literacy and it isn’t just about being able to use technology, it’s about navigating and communicating through different digital environments. 90% of the new graduate jobs require high-level ICT skills.

To conclude, these are the reasons why I think digital literacy holds an important part of our digital lives. 


Sources:

Digital literacy 101

Why Digital Literacy Matters

The essential elements of digital literacies

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