Has the pandemic changed how we engage with media?
        Submitted by Matthew Johnson
 on 25 October 2021        
      
     They say the future comes when you aren’t looking. This Media Literacy Week, we are reflecting on how the pandemic has changed how we interact with media and each other. Certainly a few years ago, not many of us could have imagined we’d be spending a fair portion of our lives doing video chats, which were considered obsolete and mostly reserved for keeping in touch with friends and family far away.
They say the future comes when you aren’t looking. This Media Literacy Week, we are reflecting on how the pandemic has changed how we interact with media and each other. Certainly a few years ago, not many of us could have imagined we’d be spending a fair portion of our lives doing video chats, which were considered obsolete and mostly reserved for keeping in touch with friends and family far away.
 
     Recently our youngest, who is 14, decided she wanted to watch Keeping Up with The Kardashians.
Recently our youngest, who is 14, decided she wanted to watch Keeping Up with The Kardashians.