In our modern days the media and information plays a big role in our lives. Its power is unmeasurable that it can change a people’s way of living, the way people perceive life, their visions, and even their lifestyle and we already proven to ourselves that the media and information plays a big role in our lives. And in the past few years we people are having difficulties when it comes in communication in order to get the information that we wanted. In our present days this kind of tasks are pretty much easier than before were unlike before its hard sending mails in distant places and difficulties in retrieving fresh news because of slow flow of information. Until mankind keep on searching and developing the ways for easy and faster way of communication and faster retrieval of information until it reach our present days where a new media has been made and the information that we need is everywhere. But in exchange of new media and information, new problem arises too.
We seem find and search easily in our present days and everyone of us is a user of media and information and carries a great responsibility to use it appropriately. It has different functions and roles in the society it can be used as source of information and a way for easy communication and one of the examples that has this kind of features is cellphone. We have different forms of media that is very useful to the society and the new knowledge and information were able to develop new technologies and new types of media. But again having this has a partner of great responsibility. Any information that we needed can be found anytime and anywhere but the problem is the reliability of the information that we get specially nowadays were fake information is flooding the internet and in different social media platforms. Examples of this are the group of people called Citizen Journalists, this group of people are providing and posting information that is not straight or should we say not relevant informations. Citizen Journalism can empower ordinary people to be responsible and to be a provider of information and it can promote self awareness of what is happening inside and outside the country however, it can cause problems such as distribution of non-reliable informations. In order to avoid such problems we must be become a media and information literated person and we should know how to locate and test the reliability of information we get everyday.
Many people deceives the others by the power of media and information and we also use it to communicate with others. Media and information brought us many things, both good and bad things and those things were partnered with a great responsibility.
MIL ePortfolio The Power of Media and Information and the Responsibility of the Users by Andrei Phillip Nogoy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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