WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY?

Gülce T. - Özden Cengiz Anatolian Highschool (Olcay Korgan)

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With the development of technology, we encounter in all areas of our lives. and media is a tool that we almost live with today. It is the place where we share our every moment, our feelings and thoughts. It also uses audio, visual and written elements together to convince us. Media literacy; commonly defined, it is the ability to access various types of media messages, to analyze and evaluate the accessed media with a critical point of view, and to produce their own media messages.  Today, media literacy focuses more on media analysis. Media literacy also contributes to the correct reading of messages and the ability of the audience to produce their own messages.

WHY IS MEDIA LITERACY IMPORTANT?

Derya D. - Fatsa Vocational Anatolian Highschool

The aims of media literacy are to explain that the world that emerges with social media may not be real and to ensure that the messages conveyed by the media are read and interpreted correctly. It aims to raise individuals who read and analyze the media correctly, look at and criticize the messages and messages within the framework of logic. We call "media literacy" the ability to understand, evaluate and transmit messages given through all mass media.

WHAT IS MISINFORMATION?

Barış B-Akyiğit Secondary School

Misinformation is the information that is false but not created with the intention of causing harm. The word "misinformation" was considered as the word of the year in 2018 because of becoming widespread around the world and leading people to believe false information.

WHAT IS DISINFORMATION?

Disinformation is the information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organisation or country. It may cause public harm, be a threat to democratic political and policy making processes.

Ebrar U- Akyiğit Secondary School

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION?

Nazlı S- Akyiğit Secondary School

Misinformation and disinformation look similar but they are not. Both disinformation and misinformation contribute to fake news, and both of them create a risk to brands and their audiences. However, the major difference between the two lies in intent. Whereas disinformation carries with it the deliberate intent to spread information known to be incorrect, the sender of misinformation may not know that the information is inaccurate. 

WHY ARE DISINFORMATION 

AND MISINFORMATION IMPORTANT?

Disinformation and misinformation seem to stick each other very quickly because they tap into emotions, drive outrage, and often become popular agreements among the general public. They both spread far and wide, and corrections can’t catch up because people rarely go back to the original story.

Sema Bögrek-Akyiğit Secondary School

WHAT IS RUMOR?

Zeynep AAL- Amasya Anatolian High School.-

Zeki Akay

According to Cambridge dictionary, rumor is an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person.

eg: The pop-star denied all the rumors about himself.

WHAT IS URBAN LEGEND?

Beyza D-Akyiğit Secondary School

   WHAT IS SPAM?

Hacer AAL- Amasya Anadolu Lisesi

Spams are unwanted emails. It is sometimes sent on purpose to steal  or destroy something. Hackers use spams as a way of intruding the other computers. So they hide themselves in spams. That's why some mails directly go to spam box because the computer system thinks they are viruses. All spam mails are not so much dangerous.

Ayşegül T.-Çumra Anatolian High School(Esra Yücel)

WHAT IS TROLL?

Troll, or Trol as it is known, is the person who tries to sow seeds in order to spoil people or start an argument on the Internet, who insults people with various ironic rhetoric or indirectly annoys people with ironic rhetoric

WHAT IS A SPREADER?

Melih AAL- Amasya Anadolu Lisesi-                                                           Zeki Akay

A spreader is a device for keeping apart or spacing parallel objects, such as electric wires or a thing that spreads.

WHAT IS A CLARIFIER?

Cemile AAL- Amasya Anadolu Lisesi

            Zeki Akay

You have probably heard the term clarifier, but what is a clarifier? It is a tank built mechanically that is used to remove solids coming from sedimentation.

  WHAT IS A PERSUADER?

A persuader is the one who or that which persuades, influences, or prevails upon.

Ceyda - Özden Cengiz 

Anatolian Highschool 

(Betül Demirci)

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