{"id":1419,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essaysparlor.com\/what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:00:53","slug":"what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is media literacy and why is it important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nChoose three cultural products you have viewed, read, or otherwise interacted that are examples of distinct forms of mass media.<br \/>\nFor example, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is an example of a cultural product of the mass media channel of print publishing and, more specifically, Penguin Books.<br \/>\nAnother example is the cultural product The Walking Dead, whose mass media channel is Television, and more specifically AMC. <br \/>\nWrite a 700- to 1,050-word personal essay that describes your three selected cultural products.<br \/>\nInclude a discussion of the following in your essay:<br \/>\nIn what ways did your examples shape, change, or reinforce your own cultural values?<br \/>\nIn what ways do you think they shape, change, or reinforce the cultural values of our society, in general?<br \/>\nWhat is media literacy and why is it important?<br \/>\nFormat your essay according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.<br \/>\nSubmit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose three cultural products you have viewed, read, or otherwise interacted that are examples of distinct forms of mass media. For example, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is an example of a cultural product of the mass media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}