Media and Popular Culture: Media Literacy

Media literacy is knowledge about your mediated environment. This includes media messages you receive or produce, and technology you use every day for work, school, information, entertainment and personal relationships. To be media literate is to be critical and empowered in a world saturated with media. (Source: The Learning About Media Project http://www.thelampnyc.org/)

Images are used to communicate messages to us every day in multiple ways. The way we interpret those images can change depending on the way they are presented. Learn the basic principles of visual literacy in this video from Globaloria written, designed and recorded by Dr. Katherine Fry.