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Media messaging that reflect a person's own views may have a wide range of emotional, societal, and

cultural consequences. It is possible for a person to lose out on a valuable lesson because they feel it
does not apply to them personally. Media messages may be seen as "too far away from their own
situations" by certain people, and they may not pay attention to them.

The cultural and social ramifications of the issue are essentially identical. From this perspective, one may
claim that it causes a rift in community. You might miss out on learning about a new culture by ignoring
material that is too far away from your own personal circumstances. We've seen how it may lead to a
polarization in society, as we've seen in the last year. To be information literate, one must be open to all
communications, irrespective of one's own biases or biases one may have. Give anything a chance or
learn about another country and history by doing so. I think that everyone can gain from experiencing
new things for the first time. Direct or oblique inferences may be made. Implications may have both
good and negative consequences. According to the Information Literacy book, individuals don't like
media messaging that are too far away from their own personal experiences.

Response no. 1:

As far as I can tell, it's the same with those who don't care about something because they don't believe
it's relevant to them. "If you don't care about what's happening in other region, why bother learning
about it? I am not a resident of that area." In my opinion, I'm not alone in engaging in such behavior.
Everybody should be aware of what's happening on in the society surrounding them, even if it doesn't
have an immediate impact on their lives.

Response no. 2:

It's true that individuals often overlook information that may be beneficial to them because they don't
sense a connection to the message. I hadn't given much attention to how this may lead to a schism in
the United States, but it makes sense. It doesn't matter if a message doesn't resonate with us because
we don't believe we can apply it to our own life. For the same reason you said, media knowledge is
critical. The best is still to come!

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