Melanie Beltran
MCS 244
March 12, 2019
Media forms translate across cultures through the access of internet. With just one click of a button, you are suddenly sucked into a world of an endless amount of internet content. In the article, “Media Literacy: A National Priority for a Changing World,” it states, “Today, the field has matured to a greater understanding of its potential, not just as a new kind of “literacy” but more, as the engine for transforming the very nature of learning in a global multimedia environment. ‘Students will spend all their adult lives in a multi-tasking, multi-faceted, technology-driven, diverse, vibrant world — and they must arrive equipped to do so.’” Technology has taken such a huge turn in people’s lives. People are better versed and understanding of the world around them. The literacy, the coding, the programming have such a positive impact on learning. In the article, “Eight Traits of the New Media Landscape,” there are eight traits to a new media landscape. Those are innovation, convergence, every day, appropriative, network, global, generational and unequal. Each trait help magnify creativity, knowledge, and originality. Understanding logistics on media. In the article, “Does globalization mean we will become one culture?,” it states, “…the internet and social networking, although often decried, is probably a good thing even if it means the loss of cultural diversity: it increases our sense of togetherness via the sense of a shared culture.” The loss of diversity caused people from multiple countries and cultures to come together as a unit. However, there might be a loss of identity. There’s a transition to westernization where all you could see are McDonald’s. Media has been such a huge alteration to many distinct cultures. Technology has driven overtime, connecting many people to a more diverse world and at the time, putting them all in one culture, making less diverse.