Media Literacy

From Wikipidea :”Media Literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read.”
So based from that what I think, Media Literacy is a process of someone receiving message, then understanding and digesting it and from the essence of that message he tries to produce something new. The basic word is creating something new from what he have study. (I’m sorry if I’m wrong).
Media literacy is important for FCM Students in order to produce a good artwork, because from that he must use his critical thinking. In real task as FCM students, before he starts making an artwork he must receive multiple information by study and do some research. Then he analyzes the information he had to find the helpful information. Then evaluate that important information to make it suitable with what has required. After that process the good artwork with accurate request to the guideline of the artwork would be produce. In other words, the importance of media literacy really helps guide students to make something new in accordance to the proper steps of making proper artworks.

My Personal Reflection:
For overall, I could summarize our topic lecture this week can be divided to two main topics Cultural Stereotype and Media Representation (for media representation can be depict and measure by Hegemonic and pluralistic model).
From these two topics I would like to describe the effect of stereotype upon certain community or group. For me stereotype is dangerous because it labeling same group with overall perception. Like example tragedy 9/11 make people aware and assume Arabs is terrorist and vary fanatic fundamentalist. Is true that in fact a few Arabs were extreme and become terrorist in away to fight with ‘penjajah’ (like Taliban in Afghanistan. But stereotype with help of powerful media was cruel by ‘branding’ Arabs as terrorist, as a result Arabs people were look with suspicious and prejudice in what ever they are doing. I think media stereotype is powerful to change people mindset.

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