Introduction to Social Media Literacy Course

1. Social Media
Literacy
An Introduction
E. Haipinge, January 2017

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.