Digital Media and Culture. Counter Stereotypes about Foreign Cultures by Using Weblogs in the EFLC

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy Literature Studies grade: 13 Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik) course: Digital Media in EFLC language: English abstract: New media - especially the personal computer - play a significant part in people´s private area as well as in the occupational area. Thus there is talk about transition of industrial society into an information society. Such transition has been fulfilled since the end of the 1960s and includes a digitalized and interconnected world for the greatest extend. Those changes affect the whole everyday reality; an increasingly number of the population spend their time in front of monitors inside a virtual reality. The internet and mobile devices facilitate communication with both familiar and unknown people all over the world. For the young generation - the so called digital natives - the constantly networking and opportunity of gaining knowledge easily became obviously.Furthermore the kind of learning has changed as well. Due to the digitalized world knowledge is not only represented differently but also accessible at any place and is not bound to a personal producer or mediator. The digital learners should not consume rehashed knowledge anymore but need to be able to have the ability to use available knowledge and information screen those usefully and thus reach efficient learning outcomes. Hence media literacy becomes a key qualification to participate in the information society.In the course of lifelong learning and concomitant increasingly compulsion to flexibility of learning weblogs as a form of e-learning can represent an efficient media to realize a new culture of teaching and learning since contents are spread independently from place and time and are made available for the recipients. Besides the access to blogs created by people and companies all over the world enables an absorption and participation in foreign cultu