Media Literacy: Our Responsibility

   Mobilizing the Millennials as Socially Responsible Prosumers

          Last January 29, 2016 we had a seminar regarding media literacy entitled " Mobilizing the Millennials as Socially Responsible Prosumers " at the APC (Asia Pacific College) Auditorium. The seminar was held with the purpose of developing a sense of responsibility to the generation of " Millennials " regarding social media producing and consuming.

          But first of all, who are the " Millennials? " Well, according to most researchers and commentators people who were born from the early 1980's to the early 2000's can be identified as the Millennials.

 

          The speaker was Mr. Tony Tiensin, a former GMA news producer and the current editor-in-chief of Subselfie.com; a website for Filipinos who want to share their voices. Mr. Tiemsin was the rightful speaker as he is a man of the media, he worked for the news and he runs a blog web site, what more could you ask for? 

          But where did his whole speech come from? Two words, Social Media. A lot of people use social media nowadays, most of us communicate online and according to research 3.5 out of 10 Filipinos are online, that's a whopping third of the whole population of the Philippines.

          Now even though a lot of us use social media, only a few know it's powers and capabilities; with a single post you can inform the whole world, that's how powerful it is and that's the reason why the seminar was held in the first place because as Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker " With great power, comes great responsibility. "

             Now in social media we all have two responsibilities, we are all producers and consumers, hence " Prosumers ." And If I must say, the seminar was held with great success. Mr. Tiemsin talked about the power of anonymity; mistaken identities; double lives; and the pros and cons of the social media.

         To sum it up, I can say that the seminar was very informative and in the end a lot of the participants (The APCians) asked questions, which means we paid attention and that for me is enough because the audience participation was the first step that meant we are beginning to understand our social media responsibilities.

Mr. Tony Tiemsin, asking the audience.