Speakers stress need for media literacy.

Byline: Tahir Niaz

ISLAMABAD -- Keeping in view the spread of information from various sources including social media, speakers at a training workshop stressed the need for media literacy for all news consumers in order to make them able to access and analyse information.

Media literacy is very important for consumers as many of them have little experience in learning how to locate, evaluate, and critically analyse the information they are consuming, speakers said at a two-day workshop on Tools for Media Information Literacy (MIL) organised by Individualland Pakistan and Information for All (IFA) at the Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre (PASTIC).

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Akram Sheikh, Director General (DG) PASTIC-IFA speaking on the occasion said that media literacy is important for all news consumers to make media consumers aware of their media environment and increase critical thinking about media's construction of reality.

While briefing the participants about United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) MIL work in Pakistan, country representative Vibeke Jensen said that 'UNESCO has been working with various local...