Social Media Literacy

An IntroductionE. Haipinge, January 2017

Social media as a collective have become a ubiquitous web tools

used by diverse people, institutions

and corporate bodies, in different ways and for various end goals.

The readily availability of social media makes

it easy for everyone with access to Internet and with minimal ICT

and information literacy to use it.

Social media literacy requires more than such skills due to it

complexities - creating and sharing content,

consuming and interpreting with

content, evaluating one's own and others'

generated content that’s publicly

accessible.