Media Literacy describes the act of being capable of handling different forms of media and being competent,critical and literate. It means being in control of what to interpret into things we see or hear and believing everything right away.
Media literacy is about helping people to become more competent with what they see/hear etc in the media and be critical about it.
by JetBlackColors October 15, 2015
Get the media literacymug. A term for critical thinking used by people who learned everything they know from video essays on YouTube.
Getting a joke is media literacy. Being good at Zelda is media literacy. Seeing this post is media literacy.
by Cranes June 21, 2023
Get the media literacymug. Taylor’s new album is meant to be bad, which is why it’s so good! People who think otherwise have no media literacy
by Okarun October 9, 2025
Get the Media Literacymug. A shitty buzzword thrown around by pseudo-intellectual Reddit and Twitter users when parroting their unoriginal analyses of movies, games, tv shows, etc. that they stole from their favorite E-celeb on YouTube. They use it to insist that the shitty goyslop they consume is more profound than it really is in order to make themselves appear like intellectuals and farm upvotes on Reddit and/or likes+retweets on Twitter from other impressionable retards who read their posts.
A: "If you realized why Ellie let Abby go at the end of The Last of Us Part II, then congratulations on having basic media literacy."
B: "Fuck off you pretentious faggot..."
B: "Fuck off you pretentious faggot..."
by wtrbrth March 1, 2024
Get the media literacymug.