January 2020

  • WHAT IS MEDIA LITERATURE.docx

    Newspaper article '' What is media literacy? '' from Alfa Academic College

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    MYSTERIOUS ETERNITY

     Space…The eternity we all wonder but feared to investigate. Space has no end, maybe there is. Who knows? Aliens exist or not. Questions that we’ve always been in the dilemma of and we’ve never been able to answer…Who do you think these questions belong to? These questions of course belong to space.

    Millions of planets have been discovered in space so far but millions more planets are waiting to be discovered. The first planet discovered was Uranus in 1781. The first black hole image was taken in April 12,2019. Interesting information:Black holes occur when stars die. Planets larger than the Sun have been discovered. The name of that planet is “TDI 197.01”. We can’t finiish writing them. Let’s move on to another topic…

    Let’s come to the aliens…Aliens are though to exist. 51. Region has also been evidence of aliens. According to rumors, weapons and dangerous machines were produced by aliens in this region. They’re building American’s defense. Maybe we’re aliens…

    Life in space is, of course more difficult than in normal life. Astronauts go through a certain training before going to space, after brushing their teeth they have to swallow, spend a certain time each day doing sports so that the muscles do not melt…

    Meteors play the biggest role in the evidence of space. All the gold in the world came with meteors long ago.

       

    As a result, we have so much to investigate about space. Nobody could define eternity. We can’t see big space through a small telescope. We are such a small part of space…

     

    NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

    Space is not the last but the next boundary and I see it as a place to explore, not as    something to conquer.  

     

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    WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY?  

     All people want to communicate with another person. We communicated with fire, pigeons, mail, Morse codes and much more communication ways. Nowadays, we’re communicating with media and media literature is one of the most important necessity of today’s people. But if we want to understand the media literature, we need to know what is media and literacy.  

     Media is the main means of mass communication (Broadcasting, Publishing and the Internet) regarded collectively. As you can see, we are using media in every time.     

    Literacy is the ability to read and write.   

    So what is media literature? 

    Media Literature is the ability  analyzing, consideration and transmitting messages which gained from mass communication tools. Nowadays, media literature is mostly about to  analyse the media. Media literature contributes to read media messages correctly and create own media messages. The main aim of media literature is read media messages correctly, describe the media’s trueness or fictionality to person and warn the people for media’s management ability for their opinions. So media literature aims to educate people to read the media messages correctly and  make criticism for the media messages. 

     Media literature is getting more and more important because media has two variations; one is the educative media and the second one is the harmful media. Educative media is the media that educates useful information. The harmful media is educates harmful information and can control your opinions. In some countries, media literature became mandatory and permanent lesson for elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and universities.   

    Children are so sensitive to useful and harmful information. Harmful information can damage children’s mind and social life. And eliminate media’s harms, media literature is necessary for eliminate harms of media. Media literature societies and foundations are so effective in World’s leading countries such as Japan, France, Germany and USA. We’re waiting serious improvments for importance and awareness from Turkey’s government and leading foundations and societies.  

     

    Author:  Noyan DOĞANGÜN  

    Alfa Academy College/9th Grade

     Ankara/TURKEY