Media and Information, and Technology Literacy Flashcards
Types of Media Sources
Broadcast Media, Print Media, New Media, and Non-traditional Media
What is Print Media?
-is a means of mass communication in the
form of printed publications.
What is New Media?
-are the platforms that provide information or entertainment using computers or the internet.
What is Non-traditional Media?
-are the type of media sources that differ from the established
platforms. It has the ability to hone in on its target geographically and
behaviorally.
They go hand-in-hand in
communication. Individual can both be sources and receivers of
information.
Media and Information
What is Information Development?
Involves generating and packaging information such that it is clear and accurate for the receiver to comprehend.
What is Media Selection?
Ensures that the information reaches its intended
receiver.
Information receivers should be ________ on getting and sharing
information. This is because information passed around can be accurate and erroneous, biased or unbiased, complete or incomplete.
meticulous
Why is critical thinking important?
It is important to think critically because logical fallacies are everywhere.
What is critical thinking?
According to Richard Paul, critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking in order to make your thinking better.
Examples of Logical Fallacies
Ad hominem – People attack their opponents’ character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
Strawman – Misinterpreting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. The strawman fallacy is created when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitute a distorted, exaggerated or misinterpreted version of that position.
Slippery slope – Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Loaded question – Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can’t be answered without appearing guilty.
BARRIERS CAUSED BY POOR INFORMATION
DEVELOPMENT
Language barriers, Physical barriers, Physiological barriers, and Interpersonal barriers
What is a Broadcast Media?
Any method of one-to-many communication that can reach a very
large audience from a single source.
What is Media?
- are the collective communication tools or sources that store and
deliver information.
What is Information?
These are the knowledge you get upon learning something. Information is the facts and the details you acquire in a particular
subject. It can either be a content of a message or a direct/indirect observation of an event conveyed by a sender to its recipient.
Examples of Logical Fallacies
Ad hominem – People attack their opponents’ character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
Strawman – Misinterpreting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. The strawman fallacy is created when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitute a distorted, exaggerated or misinterpreted version of that position.
Slippery slope – Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Loaded question – Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can’t be answered without appearing guilty.
Examples of Logical Fallacies
Ad hominem – People attack their opponents’ character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
Strawman – Misinterpreting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. The strawman fallacy is created when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitute a distorted, exaggerated or misinterpreted version of that position.
Slippery slope – Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Loaded question – Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can’t be answered without appearing guilty.
Examples of Logical Fallacies
Ad hominem – People attack their opponents’ character or personal traits instead of engaging with their argument.
Strawman – Misinterpreting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. The strawman fallacy is created when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitute a distorted, exaggerated or misinterpreted version of that position.
Slippery slope – Asserting that if we allow A to happen, then Z will consequently happen too, therefore A should not happen.
Loaded question – Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can’t be answered without appearing guilty.
