New Media Literacies

The new media literacies is a set of skills that everyone needs to use in today's culture; to function in the current media environment. Whether it's a computer, cellphone, we are constantly interacting with an ever-changing, high-paced technological culture. These skills will help society become creative artists, better citizens, and good workers in society. Before other modes of media, consumers really had to pay attention to what was being conveyed. During the 90s, everyone apparently retired to Portland when they were young and put birds on things as art. Nowadays, people are becoming the consumers and producers of their own artwork and blogs, via internet, etc. People are their creators to what they want conveyed. Instead of interpreting the different artists, we ourselves are the metaphoric artists. We are now finding out that we have to tap into our own identities. These skills are for the real-world. They are used to help us find ourselves in a manner of expressing who we are in a societal environment.