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Being “literate” in media use is in basic terms how much a person truly understands about the chosen form of media they most use. If you understand that news organizations do what’s called “agenda-setting” you know that the gatekeepers of those information outlets (whether in print or online) decide what kind of messages will be delivered even up to and including how the messages are structured. If you believe them to be impartial and don’t understand the context, you are not fully media literate.

Information literacy is based on content analysis. How much of what the writer is trying to say do you understand? Think about all those tests you took as a kid for scores on “reading comprehension.” If you are very literate in your ability to analyze the meaning behind the information you receive you would possess a high degree of comprehension. In that case, distinguish between what is true and what is propaganda (as an example).

Information technology is how information is managed using machine knowledge, algorithms, and software platforms that compute the information in manageable bits and bytes. It also includes the server technology and architecture infrastructure that allows different programs to communicate with each other even though some code may be wildly different across a platform. It isn’t related to communication theory in any way because it requires intervention by a third source and is generally seen as a mathematical construct.

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