// media literacy.

I consume more media on a daily basis than I’d like to admit.

Honestly, I used to have the ‘app usage’ featured turned on my phone, but I would get so embarrassed at how high my ‘hours per day’ count was, so I turned it off. As a result, I am heavily exposed to media messages during just about every second of every day.

I’ve hard to learn how to walk the fine line between censoring content and consuming all content. On Twitter, there’s a newer feature that allows users to censor words. When that first opened up, I censored a lot of words associated with topics I didn’t like. However, after a few more journalism classes, I realized that it was unproductive and unethical of me to censor those topics for those reasons. So, I reluctantly unblocked them and have committed to consuming that information as well. Instead, it is now my own mental responsibility to ‘block’ out misleading messages.

My journalism classes have helped me the most regarding my media literacy skills. After being exposed to media literacy charts and taught how to make my own messages clearer, I feel that it is easier for me to see through ‘click-bait’ headlines, misleading ‘facts’, or deceptive marketing tactics. As I continue to grow within this industry and as a consumer, I hope to sharpen these skills.

This blog post was written to satisfy the requirements of my Writing for the Web class.