Copy the term you selected and the original definition of the term at the top of your response using quotation marks. Write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) with your own explanation and understanding of that term.  

Module 1 media literacy assignment

For this threaded discussion, go to this week’s reading by Boles, Language of Media Literacy: A Glossary of Terms, at http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/language-media-literacy-glossary-terms/

1.  Pick two terms from list that you had never heard of before starting this course (or didn’t have a good understanding of).  Be sure that you don’t pick the same term(s) that any of your classmates have selected.

2.  Copy the term you selected and the original definition of the term at the top of your response using quotation marks.  After that, write a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) with your own explanation and understanding of that term.   Here’s an example of how to do this:

Access: “The ability of media consumers to produce their own texts and to have those texts acknowledged by the agenda setting media. Also, the ability of media consumers to respond to the dominant media.”