Media Literacy

Media Literacy

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For week four, I will share my thoughts on the three articles I had to read for this week. 

The first reading that I have started this week was called Code check, a digital news report, and from what I read of it, its primary purpose is to help people make informed decisions when they come across online news that could be misleading or not true. Companies would often face issues in the digital world, so they had to address their commitments to develop and implement ways of trustworthiness to prioritise relevant authentic and authoritative information in news feeds and ways to block and report fake news and giving ways for consumers to control and personalise the use of their data. 

For me, I had expected this in the first place. I'm not surprised by it at all. Just I've reasonably known that digital social media sites would help and improve the user's experience and give them control on how they would be able to present themselves in the digital world. It's stuff that I already know, so not surprising. I suppose they would need the tools to block false news seeing with today's world with the pandemic.  

The second reading I have read is an article of research on the Covid 19 outbreak that has been happening for a while now. The article describes how people are getting their information on the outbreak, and from what the research has found, over 2000 percipients aged 16 and over have taken part in the survey. Traditional sources like newspapers, television and radio have been used the most for information on Covid 19, while the other half used social media to look up information on Covid 19. For false information, it would be theories on how the pandemic has started, which to me sound ridiculous such things as 5G technology and drinking water more frequently. 

For me I was I didn’t know that most of the information would come from traditional media. I would assume it would come from social media more because, in today's world, most people would get their news from social media. As for the false information, I was surprised to see how stupid some of the theories are like 5G and water had something to do with the outbreak is ridiculous. I enjoyed reading this article bit surprised that traditional media was the most used thing for information gathering. 

The final reading that I have read is an article titled News media literacy, perception of bias, and interpretation of news written by Melissa Tully from the University of Iowa USA, who is into journalism. A study that focuses on the news media and the perceptions of personal bias and news bias affect new choices in the abstract believe the news bias occurs for a variety of complex reasons. 

For my thoughts on this article ill be honest, I didn’t really like it that much I felt like this could be shortened down a bit to make it more simple to read. When i began to read the article i notice it was a long paragraph for each page i decided to look out for sub headings more bold headings to make it easier for me to understand it instead of looking at 18 long paragraphs, I wouldn’t mind looking at an article with like 3 or 4 pages with more sub headings and bold words.