Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Dissecting Good and Bad through Promoting Media and Information Literacy (MIL)

Abstract

 The “global village” was once a concept coined by Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan in the early 1960s to describe what he predicted as a technology-driven world. Today, in a hyperconnected era, people realize what was once just a concept as they become more digitally wired and constantly exposed to a plethora of information through various media. But amid the advancements and connectedness brought about by the ever-changing media landscape is a reminder for people to champion media and information literacy (MIL) all the time — both in online and offline spaces.