SEOUL: A media literate society would approach information received via social media analytically, according to an academician. Arizona State University professor, Dan Gillmor said if the society understood media literacy and became knowledgeable, they could discern between true information and misinformation as well as be able to distinguish fake news. “For media literacy to reach as many people as possible and to reduce the damage that misinformation is causing in so many places we must collaborate across discipline, ideologies, borders and ages. “This is a job for teachers, librarians, journalists (journalism organisations) and technologists (technology companies),” he told Bernama after presenting his paper on ‘Fake News and Media Literacy’ at the two-day Korea Press Foundation (KPF) Journalism Conference 2017 here, today. He said the advent of the new media had enabled the audience to contribute media contents via smartphones using various social media platforms.

Source: New Strait Times November 15, 2017 04:30 UTC