Open AccessINFORMATION AND USER: SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY IN DIGITAL SOCIETIES
Author(s) -
Nithin Kalorth,
Manish Verma,
Malvika Sagar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of content, community and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2456-9011
pISSN - 2395-7514
DOI - 10.31620/jccc.12.20/24
Subject(s) - social media , narrative , digital literacy , digital media , sociology , information literacy , literacy , media literacy , computer science , world wide web , multimedia , media studies , pedagogy , philosophy , linguistics
The information flow in digital societies is discussed and analyzed for more than a decade with a close watch on social media networks. The shift from traditional forms of communication to social media enables users to gratify their daily needs of information digitally. The current paper builds on narrative analysis of selected social media active users and their digital social engagement to understand how a user and a network of users engagement with information. To understand the role of social media literacy, the current paper interviews the users and correlated the findings with contemporary literature on social media. The results show that social media literacy becomes the pillar of the information system, but it works in the micro-level of societies at the crossroads of online and offline spaces.