Media literacy: Esseential Skills Needed in Using Social Media

Abstract

Media literacy is a cognitive and practical skill that individuals both as media users or media producers need to acquirre to develop themselves to gain expertise to understand the media, the content of the media techniques used in creation. The impact of media to media users and producers in this easy access age of social media. This article presents some of the most popular social media platforms and media literacy process that media recipients and media producers need to know. Media literacy skill can be applied in everyday life and in working, to be effective media users and producers and to create creative social media.