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Media literacy contributes significantly to a participatory culture by equipping individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary to engage actively with media content. Through critical thinking, people learn to discern between credible and misleading information, fostering a culture of informed participation. Media literacy also encourages active involvement in media creation and consumption, empowering individuals to share their perspectives and contribute to meaningful discussions.

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Teaching Media Literacy can help our students to feel protected surfing the internet

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Today most of us rely on technology for our studies. We all use it for either completing any task, for our classes, studying before an exam or even to learn something we have an interest in.

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Media literacy helps us stay safe online

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TEACHİNG in school with teeanagers on the subject media literacy, including how to create and communicate online, could contribute to a participatory culture, as it would enable them to carefully produce publications such as blogs, videos, etc. This would allow them to create communities that work towards the positive goals and changes they would like to see in the world.

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Media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture in many way.
Learning and teaching media literacy contribute feeling safe while surfing the net.

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Another picture on crowdsourcing

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As one could deduce from Media Scholar Henry Jenkins’ speech, media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture by identifying public with authors. Users of YouTube or Vimeo or Wikipedia are also  authors of  products created by themselves, published and shared by digital media. This phenomenon is called crowdsourcing (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdsourcing) and originates from Economics and Business (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing)

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Via media people can come together sharing similar thoughts, lifestyles or can learn about different lifestyles, thoughts.

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Media literacy is modern, essential skill that should take main role in making safe and polite online environment.

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Media literacy is an important aspect of our life.
We need to teach it especially in the school library.

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"Schools need to lower existing barriers which make it difficult to deploy participatory platforms through education, stepping back from software that filters or blocks access to the internet. But in doing so, they also need to work with the students to develop norms of use that respect the particular character of the school community and its goals rather than adopting an "anything goes" attitude." in http://henryjenkins.org/.
This excerpt expresses exactly what I feel about the subject. I agree in absolute.

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media literacy can learn about risks of the Internet and the tips for staying safe online.

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Media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture trough helping pensioners, homeless people, volunteering..

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media culture can contribute to a participatory culture through different alternatives. One of them is to gather fodors for different activities ... for example ... organizing the Christmas Fair, helping sick children, helping families at risk poverty, etc.

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The increasing access to the Internet has come to play an integral part in the expansion of participatory culture because it increasingly enables people to work collaboratively; generate and disseminate news, ideas, and creative works; and connect with people who share similar goals and interests

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Media literacy is both powerful and essential in making positive changes.  Together we can tackle and address issues in our communities, locally and globally; acquire and share skills; spark creativity and we are not bound by geographical limitations.

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Tony, Ireland: A most thoughtful video input which refreshingly brought the focus on media literacy to the positive aspects - authentic audience and purpose for student creativity which we as teachers must welcome...

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Tony, Ireland: A most thoughtful video input which refreshingly brought the focus on media literacy to the positive aspects - authentic audience and purpose for student creativity which we as teachers must welcome...

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As I see it, media literacy is a fundamental aspect of the present day culture. It is culture in itself, since a conscious and aware use of the ICT is necessary in order to deal with the changing world of media and communications.
Students, teachers and parents have to acquire media literacy competences , in so doing they will be able to take part in a real participatory culture and benefit from its many positive aspects withouth being influenced by its negative ones.
Finally, media literacy, if well taught and widespread, is a fundamental way to enlarge the social, economic and educational horizons of a democratic society.

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Media literacy could lead to nice international projects, could connect students around the world.

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Media offer such a variety and thus are pretty easy to be involved into educatiosn and at the same time interesting and also a sort of a must.

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Media literacy is easy to do today.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil  

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil  

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Media literacy allows people to be creative and media producers so as to facilitate a better understanding of each media type and also to develop independent media. Media culture is an extension of the general culture. By transforming the process of consuming media messages into a critical and active activity, people are better aware of the media manipulation potential, and a better perception and understanding of roles which mass media and participatory media play in building a vision of reality.

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Through media people can share ideas, experience worldwide; thanks to that it can be more accessible for everybody.

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Partecipatory culture means sharing ideas, products, creating media which may be used to improve our knowledge or to help defend people's rights. We can collaborate with peopke all over the world.

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In a partecipatory culture people use and share media. The best can help and share their ideas with the weakest.

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media literacy contribute to a participatory culture because students can about something from media and after that they can developing their own ideas

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Media literacy is about the ability to access, analyse, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms.

Participatory culture is an opposing concept to consumer culture — in other words a culture in which private individuals (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers).

The increasing access to the Internet has come to play an integral part in the expansion of participatory culture because it increasingly enables people to work collaboratively; generate and disseminate news, ideas, and creative works; and connect with people who share similar goals and interests

So, if you are media literate then it’s natural that you put your skills in action to communicate and collaborate with others and embrace causes.

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partecipatory culture in a class means to learn to rewspect each other work and collaborate together helping each other.

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People who have a certain level of media literacy can benifit to their community, can teach each other, can create something useful . ,

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Barbara from Italy: I think that the participatory culture could be a valid tool to encourage students to share ideas with their peers about any topic, in order to enrich their knowledge and skills.

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Barbara from Italy: I think that the participatory culture could be a valid tool to encourage students to share ideas with their peers about any topic, in order to enrich their knowledge and skills.

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Media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture in many way.
Learning and teaching media literacy contribute feeling safe while surfing the net.

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I think that media literacy could improve in all the users the felling of belonging to a community that shares ideas and habits. Being able to critically use media means to share a culture and express it through media artifacts.

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Media literacy can contribute to partipatory culture mainly because students stop being media consumers to also become crators of information.

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By completing the media literacy test: https://pilnadoma.lv/encyclopedia/izpildi-testu-un-parbaudi-savu-medijpratibu/, the results of the students were good. The conclusion was this: Not everything you have read on the Internet is true.

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Media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture in many ways. I believe that the most important thing that media literacy would bring in young minds would be "don't trust anything you see" . Information should be checked first, you can't just simply believe in everything you see on the internet. Young people should be motivated to be more than just simply media consumers.

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Learning and teaching media literacy contribute feeling safe while surfing the net. In fact, Students will become real cybercitizens via the new media literacy skills (play, networking,negociating, judgement, appropiation, navigation, multitasking, performance)

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Knowing what we want to say and contribute to a society and especially by being media literate being able to address a message understandably using media, knowing about my audience  and reflecting on my purpose will result in active participation, sparking the feeling of being a member of a society.

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Towards a participatory culture
The media literacy of the younger generation is urgent, including them in school curricula.
Today's adults are proof of the inadequate use and defaulting of the media, since no one has warned them of the dangers, rights and duties, having made a personal and individual discovery.
To avoid this, we need to prepare the future of our students by giving them the tools and skills that are already imposed in today's social media world.
no one can choose between joining the new technologies or not .... they are already in our society! That's why we need to know how to deal with them, under penalty of being excluded from the speed at which it has advanced

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Media literacy now is like writen literacy century ago, it is neccesary. Students use it and learn how to do it properly.

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Teaching Media Literacy can help our students to feel protected surfing the internet

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I think it's necessary to lead students to know and understand how to use media. But first of all, adults have to. Everyone has the duty to use in a proper and conscious way the media. Not only using, but also producing and sharing media can help people to become aware and responsible citizens.

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Students can become more aware, rponsible and involved citizens, both the the real and in the virtual world.

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How can media literacy contribute to a participatory culture?

Communication is a very important part of our condition as social beings, we see communication as a tool to build bridges towards new goals. Media Literacy can be widely used in order to reinforce communication between people with a common goal. In Mexico during the earthquake disaster last year the population of the city were instantly mobilized through a big quantity of groups in different social media which led to rescue groups, donation of food and social support. One specific example in my city Queretaro, was a group of Pokemon Go players, which organized a donation event with all the players and communities they knew, they actually drove the donations directly to the Mexico city and posted pictures during the trip (since there was a common distrust feeling towards the government).

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Nowadays,Media Literacy is essential. The students need to develop digital skills to live and work in the future.I think that expert and critical digital citizens will good for democracy.

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Teaching media literacy can contribute to a participatory culture. Students will learn to become more aware of the risks they may face.

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Today, there are too many sources of news. You have to be able to find the quality and truth in them before you act and believe in what they say

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Children and adults who read the media correctly, pass messages through them to a certain filter, know the functioning of media institutions, and create masses that can distinguish between  true and wrong, will provide better ownership of the changed and developing culture every day.

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If we don't know what is real and what is fake, we could end up participating and supporting something bad.

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Media sources describe the current state of society.
This media culture means - description, pictures, sounds ...
We all meet in everyday life

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School subjects must be a reflection of all the topics and knowledges that every person should have in that moment society. So, in the same way we teach/learn about human rights, behaviour or citizenship, and we include this in every other subject, also we should teach/learn appropiate behaviour on IT when in all the subjects related to

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Knowing, being informed and informing, acting, participating, expressing opinion, taking attitude, this means the role of Media literacy in participatory culture.

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Media literacy is very important for participatory culture, and we need to teach children what is media literacy important

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thanks Internet digital natives are in the news and can partecipate to know them

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Engaging young people in this direction is essential. Developing a participatory culture is a great idea in our digital era.

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Teaching media literacy is an important step, the students can partecipate with competence

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Children of 21st century are surrounded by digital devices. Our communication is increasingly more digital and global.
Yet, no one can learn everything on their own. So, in order for children to learn, we the adults must learn first and offer them good guidance. Just like we teach them to cross the road, we do not simply say they will figure it out nor do we say they are born knowing how to do it! The same must apply to the digital communication.

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Todays children are born computer literate our job is to guide them down the right path to became responsible citizens in the virtual world.

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Dr Jenkins offers a very persuasive and optimistic view of the role of media literacy in leading to a participatory culture. He also indicates how important it is not to leave any kids behind in the natural development from playing around with media, as he sees it, to becoming aware of how to become a good citizen. This is a strong endorsement of the fact that kids don't need adults or teachers to snoop behind them but to watch their backs in a protective way. Teachers should be able to encourage this progression in schools during lesson time.

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best practices of technology, can allow creators to do marvels with all the possibilities this offers, from recording a movie with a cellphone to expressing ideas . A participatory culture will promote this being shared, to collaborate to be part of something bigger.

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Participatory culture will be a fantastic idea to enrich our knowledge and to make of us more participative people. I think it is very important for student´s to acquire this idea.

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Media literacy should empower our students in all spheres of their interest and prepare them for the concept of lifelong learning. It can also direct them to choose the right cultural content.

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Technology has changed and is changing our life and our communication . The school, as a training institution, has the duty to adapt to these new requests, to formulate and to inform its students on the conscious use of the network, on the participated use of correct and respectful communication. Analyzing the media lityeracy is essential to bring our students to the awareness of their critical thinking necessary for a conscious and responsible web use.

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Technology changes our lifes and our programms in schools. Pupils go as learning partners every day. For this activity and knowing that the most of them discuss and share on line, media literacy it's a crusial skill.

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Media Literacy is important both teachers and students becauce we can understand how we can use media.

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It is important that our students learn about media literacy, so they can develop their critical thinking and can differentiate good form potentially bad Internet information. It is also important for making us be involved in our community and the big community, the continent or the planet. We can do this more responsible, more informed, more effective.

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Media literacy is important for theachers and students. They have  not to be confused in the net. Media literacy helps for a better communication and participation in a society as competent citizens.

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I think that with media literacy it is easier to form groups with shared interests or find something that suits one or other, that's how I think it can contribute to a participatory culture.

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Media literacy, how is it important in everyoune's everyday? a lot, because it is really worth to learn how to analyse and use media letarecy. What is more, it helps to use all the ways of media without any threat.

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Acquiring media literacy skills might help our students come with better ideas to solve contemporary problems and is the basis for a further better informed and cultural aware grown-up.

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It is important that our students learn about media literacy, so they can develop their critical thinking and can differentiate good form potentially bad Internet information.

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Language Literacy and Numeracy have always been seen as the tenets of the basic education required to successfully live in and navigate our world (At least since the start of the Print revolution) - I think that it is important to continue this idea into the Digital revolution where our students have a new challenge, which is living with and being surrounded by digital media. To be literate within this world should also be seen as a basic tenet of what it is to be educated.

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Media literacy is in my opinion one of the most important skill and competence that our students should have nowadays. The vast amount of information that they can find on the internet needs to be addressed with criticism and caution. Media literacy will help them critically address all issues that they may come across when using the Internet.

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Media literacy includes the ability to search effectively and find, critically evaluate and use responsibly
press, radio and television broadcasts, cinemas, online and other information. This one
the literacy process is understood as the preparation and the ability to think critically and evaluate in the public
awareness of the information in the space, civic and cultural maturity and social skills.

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Media literacy makes us understand the world we live in and makes us more aware about political manipulation. It is also important for making us be involved in our community and the big community, the continent or the planet. We can do this more responsible, more informed, more effective.

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I think that narration and sharing is a really key in using and taking advantage of the Web, and this means creating a partecipatory culture. Obviously as we behave in a certain way in real society we must teach and learn how to develop healthy relationships also on the Web, being aware of the tool we are using.

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Drago, Croatia              It is of great importance for students to become familiar with media literacy, because they can only use a multitude of internet sites more safely.:-)

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Drago, Croatia              It is of great importance for students to become familiar with media literacy, because they can only use a multitude of internet sites more safely.:-)

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Media literacy is an important aspect of our life; every time we use a PC or a smartphone we are literally
hammered by information, ads, popups and so on .... It's very necessary ti start teaching, discussing and share this new argument in school because our pupils are the "tomorrow people" and they have to be prepared to live in a society even more based on internet and media.

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Media literacy contributes to a participatory culture, if the kids are aware that they can learn from the experience of others, experience that is on the internet. Also, if they have any skills (in sport, gastranomy etc.) they can share them and be an example

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My thoughts on this
https://padlet.com/vishigh/MLD_OnlineSafetyMOOC

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Media literacy can be a dignificant factor in participatory culture as with the use of New Technology and Media people can create and share new stuff. It is important that they critically create it and share it.

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II believe it is increasingly necessary to increase the awareness and digital "wisdom" of young people, first of all by defining the terms of a new digital literacy to be integrated in the curriculum, in consideration of the growing weight of participatory culture and learning informal.

It is therefore a matter of encouraging our students towards a more critical evaluation of online content: It is not a question of determining the "real facts" as much as understanding how the political, economic and social context shapes any text, like any text it can be adapted for different social purposes, and as no text is neutral or necessarily of "superior quality" compared to another. So we teachers are called to propose activities that increase the ability to retrieve information, added to "critical thinking" necessary to formulate informed opinions on the retrieved information and awareness on validity and completeness of internet sources, but above all the consequent social and political impacts.

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https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship

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In Turkey there is a lesson called media literacy and this is very important for praparing students to real life and knowing diifference between real and fake.

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The development of society is based on communication and collaboration.Everybody can share something in the field he is more interested in and talented.Also, everybody can learn regardless the age group (kids, teenagers, adults). The internet is the most elaborated space where information can be gathered,stored and shared.Teaching media literacy can prepare the student for the future life in this society based on ongoing development of technology.They are willing to explore and we have the opportunity to guide them through this process relying also on their new ideas. (that they should know how to defend/sustain with arguments).

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Teaching media literacy is important for preparing students for participation in aSociety as competent and media literate citizens

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If young people have awareness about subjects like, privacy, copyright, personal data, and of the power, they can join efforts and do the difference for better in society. If they start to create contents that need knowledge and effort, they start to better understand the copyright concept.

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I believe that the more students are media literate and understand the importance of privacy, copy rights, security, and how to behave online, the more they will be able to participate in a digital culture.

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Media Literacy is essential for kids and adult, too.

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A collaboration between peers.

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http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2010/02/_children_and_young_people.html
Schools need to prepare young people to use these new resources creatively, effectively, and responsibly if they are going to prepare them for the lives they will lead in the 21st century. Such power can be under-used if they are not taught to use it creatively or effectively; it can be abused if they are not taught to use it responsibly. Teachers need to recognize both the risks and the possibilities of these new opportunities for human expression.

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The new culture will be a participatory culture in which everyone contributes. A collaboration between peers, a two-way communication. Only the two sides are the world and you.