The Importance Of Critical Media Literacy

Critical Media Literacy is more of an ability someone uses to encode, or decode symbols transmitted through the media. This is also the ability in which we are synthesizing, analyzing, and even producing media messages. Such valuable resource is important because it offers a profound approach in comprehending the media messages people (at various ages) receive, serves as a set of guidelines in order to make well rounded adjustments to our society, and establishes a perfect chance for media monitors, using several forms, to keep the media protected from threats and many flaws. Through their perspectives, women in in Miss Representation, Laurie Penny, Jeff Yang and Jacob Siegel openly speak about the ways, in which they are using critical media

A journalist and feminist activist, Laurie Penny, argues that violence of misogynist extremism is dangerous not only to people in real life, but also to the internet, and other forms of media. She believes that several aspects of “our” media is posing a delicate issue. Here, the critical media literacy is utilized as Penny learns that to adults, the media is one thing, while for children it appears to be another. “I didn’t experience violent misogyny … my early years were free of direct experience of … hatred…, except as an abstract concept, the fear that gets taught to all girl-children as soon as they can stand unaided: don’t walk down that street, … that has been expanded to include: don’t go on the internet…. Are there, … who will hurt you.” Depending on various articles such as “Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they are” along with other written inside The Guardian, or novels like “Unspeakable things,” Penny actually cares about “our” society, especially children. When stating, “in the name of protecting children from a rotten tide or raunchy videos, a terrifying precedent is being set for state control of the digital commons,” she is discreetly concerned about the media and internet media. The use of critical media

A CNN contributor and writer, Jeff Yang, assists “us” in perceiving the media with cautious consideration. He analyzed an interesting, yet grotesque case of a young man’s hostility by means of reviewing the person’s manifesto and uniquely disputing the media’s evaluation. “But after seeing him consistently described as fitting the ‘typical mass shooter profile”… A little research exposed what should be obvious. Rodger is biracial… “According to his article, Yang took his inner findings at an advantage to confirm that Mr. Elliot Rodger acquired an intense amount of hatred and rage towards other people. ”I truly didn’t want to read Elliot Rodger’s “manifesto,” …he found himself staring with ever growing resentment…” Using critical media literacy, which he evidently relied on, he uncovered that a mound of racial identity, insecurity and just plain racism have played a dangerously negative role. It is important to have a safe media and personal environment. Clearly, Yang demonstrates that the critical media literacy should remain as a positive and peaceful “assistant” to