Mobilizing the Millennials: a Medial Literacy Seminar

Asia Pacific College conducted Media Literacy seminar about how to be a better Socially 

Responsible Prosumer (Producer-Consumer). 

I was amazed to know that the speaker is a former Media and Communications Officer of Save the Children Foundation, and is also a Executive Producer in GMA News Hourly Bulletin and a former Supervising Producer in GMA News Special Assignments Team: Toni Tiemsin. It was such an honor to learn about media from a person who is truly knowledgeable about it.

The Seminar starts with a video introduced by Miss. Kareen the RAMpage head. The video was  about the things Ferdinand Marcos made to improve the Philippines, Hospitals, LRT, Schools, Theaters, etc. and a video clip which tells the story about Ex. President Ninoy Aquino’s death. Followed by a very confusing video that shows different accurate and reliable facts about the story behind the EDSA’s People Power revolution. It is true that I don’t know any of that aside from the things that our History Professor taught me during my elementary and high school days. Mr. Toni Tiemsin said that we are the Millennials. According to Google, Millennials are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. He also mentioned that the Millennials are the Me-Me Generation. Why? Because it is awfully true that most of the millennials are self-centered and we are not using our power to do things which benefits our fellow men. The power that I am talking about is our power to use social media networks. I know it may sound cliché, but let us not underestimate the power of Social Media because it has a large part of the world nowadays, whatever we post on our Facebook status, whatever we tweet on our Twitter accounts; it can reach through the whole world.

If, you post something on your account which benefits others, imagine how many people or how far your advocacy can reach? We Millennials are a wields a great POWER on our hands. Using it to benefit others, our nation and using it as an instrument to fight for good is what being a Responsible Prosumer is.