# Media Literacy Media literacy is the ability to access, interpret, evaluate, create, and responsibly share media while understanding how sources, formats, incentives, algorithms, ownership, and social context shape meaning. It includes checking provenance, comparing sources, recognizing persuasive technique, and distinguishing evidence from presentation. Media literacy is not a demand to distrust everything. Its purpose is calibrated judgment: knowing what is known, what remains uncertain, and what additional verification a consequential claim requires. Related: [[wiki/Cognitive Inoculation|Cognitive Inoculation]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]], [[wiki/Epistemic Noise|Epistemic Noise]], [[wiki/AI-Mediated Communication|AI-Mediated Communication]].