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Hannah Grace Raagas G12

“Understanding the Relevance of Information Literacy in the Midst of Social Era”

Social era is an era where we, social beings, connect with one another. By connecting and interacting, we tend to exchange information. May it be through person to person talking, social media, calling, texting, etc. We can't avoid sharing information therefore being an information literate individual is very relevant. Critically analyzing, evaluating, and locating credible and reliable information is a must during this social era. Having the ability of spreading or sharing information that are factual is a great help in this era. We can say that information literate people are essential in this social era for us to be able to absorb factual information from reliable and trusted sources. Information illiterate people can adapt if we pursue the sharing of information with mass audiences. Through this, we can form a world where people can only spread and share reliable and credible information.

Nowadays internet is the most important thing in our daily lives. Business transactions through emails, paying bills in just a tap on our ewallet, and keeping in touch with your friends through the whole globe in social medias. These are few examples of how internet have worked on us. But there are also dangers of internet that we should avoid for us to be safe from phishing, scams, false information and etc. And that's why we need to become a literate to the information we saw everyday in our social medias. Be vigilant to outsmart scammers by securing your privacy in internet. We need to make sure that the information you saw are legit by knowing and searching it's source. You should also be careful on what you've posted specially to your private information. Understanding information literate can make you also help others from the danger of the internet.

Media and Government: A Love-Hate Relationship

Media and Government holds the greatest power in our society. Both can manipulate the society and their love-hate relationship affects the whole nation thus, it can cause immense chaos. One great example of this love-hate relation between both parties is the ABS-CBN shutdown issue last 2020. The government was not glad with what the TV station has been reporting so the action that the government made was to dig the flaws ABS-CBN made in the past. On the other hand, another TV station, GMA, reports news in the favor of the President. This happening caused the views of people to stir. The speculations that a media outlet who reports in favor of the government and sugarcoats their statement receives bribe while another media outlet that reports news based on facts is speculated to support the other political party. Due to lack of transparency, these are only rumors.

As we see, the government favors the media outlet where they can get something, where they can benefit while the opposite happens to the media outlet who opposes the government’s agenda. The government utilizes their authority to deprive our countrymen the democracy we deserve. Main reason for this is either the government has absolute flaws where people can easily condemn them in a snap. With the government at the upper hand, the people won’t have a say. They’ll equip the law and use it against the media that opposes them. So much for democracy, the media we are provided today has already been manipulated. The news these media outlets release to the general public is like the criteria if they will be a target or an ally of the government. It is up to our perspective whether we believe every sugarcoated statement in our media or wake up to the reality of how manipulated it is.

“The Value of Being a Media and Information Literate Individual”

A peaceful and truthful world could not be so much to ask if only we will uphold the value of being a Media and information literate individual. There are so many things we can do being in this position. We can stop the spreading of fake news, the false information, the misjudgment and misconception indicated by people, by providing facts and information against it. We should take smart actions in the world of media; we should think thoroughly the things we are going to say as it gives more impact than what we thought. We should not recklessly post something without filtering our thoughts and sources which is not proven as fact. We should be mindful with the words we use when communicating and be a viewer or reader with the objective to find the goal and analyze the information effectively. These simple smart actions done so much improvement we could never imagine.  

Being a Media and Information Literate individual serves as a tool for better quality of life. Not being gullible could lead someone for better point of view, understanding and goal. We won't be able to feel the feeling to cope up, the feeling of being left out and amiss something, for we are much provided with the spirits of information in our heads, the talent of perceiving and how we react in the best way to certain things could be the reasons why our life would improve. And now that we have this privilege for being literate, let us help those who are not. We should share our best learnings and understanding to them, for the whole world needs literate people but with a heart. Let’s try to be more open to goods things and deliver good news every day. These simple good things could benefit each of us, let’s not abuse the power of literacy, make it blossom truthfully and effectively.