People's Media Literacy in the City, State, or Country

Media Literacy
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Q1: How would you characterize the people's media literacy in the city, state, or country where you live? What evidence can you point to that justifies your characterization?
Media literacy allows critical thinkers and creatives to use images, text, and sound for a wide variety of messages. It is the knowledgeable use of literacy skills to communicate through media and technology. Communication technologies transform our society and affect our knowledge of ourselves, our communities, and our different cultures (Lee, 2018). In North America, literacy media involves a number of communication skills, including the capacity to communicate, access, analyze and evaluate information in a wide range of ways, including printing and non-printing.
Media literacy is an interdisciplinary approach and a required, unavoidable and realistic reaction to the complex and constantly changing technological world and communication that surrounds us. For people to become effective students, responsible citizens, productive workers, or knowledgeable and conscientious consumers, competence with increasingly complex mediums of information and entertainment is needed to address us on many senses, impacting our way of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Today's information and amusement technologies convey to us through a strong combination of text, pictures, and sounds. Thus, we must learn a broader array of literacy abilities that help us understand the messages we get and use these tools efficiently to design and communicate our own messages (Luke & Sefton-Green, 2018). In addition, learning thro...