Digital Literacy
Importance
What is it about and its importance?
Digital literacy is about a person's ability to read and write online or using technology such as computers, smartphones and Kindles, but it's also a lot more than that. Digital literacy is an every more important factor in education in one's life. People must develop digital literacy skills when reading and interacting with online content that may contain embedded resource such as hyperlinks, audio clips, graphs, or charts that require them to make a choice. for example, reading a book online, in most cases, is not much different from reading a print book.
Digital Media Convergence technologies for digital content creation
Media users often produce content, such as social media comments and endorsements that assist in delivering brand messages. Prominent media platforms such as Youtube play an important role content creation.
Digital Media Convergence technologies for digital content distribution
Changes in the way people distribute information, knowledge and entertainment potentially give rise to increased autonomy, increased participation and increased diversity.
Digital consumption of content over digital media convergence technologies
Billions of people are now able to access media content that was once tied to specific communication media. Now content is now accessed through the same devices. For example, news organisation no longer simply provide just print or audiovisual content but are portals that make material available in forms such as text, video and podcasts
