Media literacy and remix culture

</noinclude>Media literacy refers to the understanding,construction,represenation and reading of a media text.
Or "The ability to create,use,analyse and understand media products, within the context of their audiences and institutions." (Donna Copper-Cliftlands)
Media Literacy makes people ask questions about what they watch,see and hear which helps them create and constuct their own media.It plays a big part in the way that people detect propoganda censorship and bias especially within public affair media. The term is often linked to the way that teenagers are viewed today and the way that they consume the media.
In the sense that teenagers watch too much media especially the internet however the term media literacy has lead to the discussion that rather then seeing this in a negative way it could be that this generation are more "Media literate" and that the new media that the consume regularly makes the older generation more "media illiturate"
This article relates to the negative view of the effect of media and young people.
However the way that media has transformed the term media literacy relates to the Remix literacywhich helps the young people become more media literate. The Remix literacy is the way in which someone creates their own piece of media out of someone elses piece of media.
So watch this video.. This was origanlly CNBC but has then been edited to create the video in a more comic sense which is known as remix literacy.
This was the findings of Henry Jenkins who carried out NML where he carried out research of new media literacy in which he stressed "The participotary culture" Which highlighted the role of teenagers as creators, connectors,communicators and collaborators rather the simple consumers making the new generation more media literate.

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