Media literacy can refer to the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication.
Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages. … Media literacy represents a necessary, inevitable, and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing electronic environment and communication cornucopia surrounding us.
Media literacy influences the sphere of influence someone undergoes, because the skills associated with it often guides one to:
- decide the sources they refer to — to keep out for blindspots or biases, to reaffirm one’s belief or biases, etc.