While there are a few definitions of media literacy, in a media effects class I took back in college I learned that media literacy means to have the aptitude to consume media, i.e., film, television, or traditional press, by using critical thinking filters to identify “misrepresentations.”  They can range from manipulation in advertising including political propaganda, to discerning sensationalism from news, to distortion of race and gender in media narrative. Now if we look at what digital literacy encompasses, it includes the understanding of how to use digital…