Critical thinking and media literacy Part IV

Critical thinking and media literacy

Critical thinking is having the desire to search, the patience to doubt, the fondness to meditate, the slowness to affirm, the disposition to consider, the care to order and the hatred of all kinds of imposture, it is a process that contributes to organize concepts, ideas and knowledge. It is the ability to objectively analyze and think about the facts to create a judgment, a conclusion, a solution or an idea. Fake news, in fact, has a lot to do with what is known as the car-car effect and this, in turn, with a critical analysis of reality, or rather, with its absence, although the Internet He has made us available. we have a lot of information available from anywhere in the world that we can access at any time. Media outlets, blog articles, IM threads, social media posts all get mixed up and it's important to differentiate between true and fake content. The critical sense helps us to discern between mediocre and brilliant arguments, to distinguish valuable information from dispensable information, to dismantle prejudices, to find well-founded conclusions, to generate alternatives, to improve communication and, ultimately, to be masters of our thinking. and act accordingly.