The New Media Literiacies by the NML Staff

This video was very short but very helpful. The video explains the new set of skills that everyone needs to deal with our culture today, to be able to function with current media literacy's, the Internet, cell phones, and to interact with information regarding our culture. They say that everyone needs them to become creative artists, workers, and citizens. In the past media literacy's were made to try to get consumers of media to think critically about what they were watching.

They believe that a child is not only a consumer, but also a producer of media. Instead of asking questions about creator, we actually need to be asking questions about ourselves. There are eleven skills that are said to be needed to function with our culture today. These skills are judgment, negotiation, appropriation, play, trans media navigation, simulation, collective intelligence, performance, distributed cognition, visualization, and multitasking.

Judgment is being able to judge if information on the web is reliable. Negotiation is knowing how to get in different groups and spaces and understand how different norms are. Appropriation is knowing how to remix and sample content in a meaningful way. Play is said to be one of the best skills because it is having the capacity to experiment with your surroundings. The other skills are pretty self explanatory. I believe that the skills that I hold are negotiation, play, appropriation, visualization, and multitasking. I do believe that I need to conquer the other remaining skills, but that it will take a little bit more time. To acquire the others I will just research and practice conquering each skills one by one.

The News Media Literacy project is a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. It explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world according to there website. You can look at this website by going to: NML .