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 defi...