11 - Media Literacy

According to the internet Media literacy is a repertoire of competencies that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and format. There are actually 3 beautiful speakers from the GMA Network who imparted as their knowledge about media literacy. Also, they opened our eyes                   problems in media. It is nice to know about media literacy. I’ve learned a lot of things from this seminar.      

Nowadays, people would focus more about celebrities, which is a hot potato, than any other important social issues. Like the news about the Lumads, no one knew about what happened to them. It’s kind of disappointing that people wouldn’t focus or give attention about the Lumads. We couldn’t blame the media for not letting the cat out of the bag because they just picked what the people want to see in the TV. I didn’t change my profile picture like the others who at the drop of a hat did when the bombing in Paris happened. Simply because why would I change my picture with the flag of Paris if I could change with the flags of all countries in the world. As a matter of fact, Paris wasn’t the only country who has been bombed by the others. The sad reality says it all, how people can be so insensitive because they didn’t care about any other countries. This seminar is calling for an action, I guess. We should be responsible in what we posts on social networking sites. Also, not all things should be posted in the Internet for example; some have the nerve of taking a picture of you crying. It don't make sense because you’re just letting other people bash you with your false move because of it and also you’re just humiliating yourself in public. It’s like their digging their own graves. They fall in their own nest by their actions.                       

We should pay more attention to the social issues in the world. We should not always focus about celebrities, Aldub, Ms. Pastillas, and etc. There are more things that we should care about rather than those things. I hope that the students are all ears when the speaker presented in the seminar.