MIL Summative 1 Flashcards
Skills in determining accurate information
- Look for facts
- Cross-reference with other sources for consistency
- Determine the reason for writing and publishing the information
5 categories of media convergence
- Economic: when a company controls over several products within the same industry
- Cultural: stories from different cultures flowing across media platforms
- Global: influence of geographically distant places to another place
- Organic: natural multitasking
- Technical/Technological: different kinds of technology being used at the same time (ex: when streaming)
What is technology?
Synthesized tools that serve to apply knowledge to perform certain tasks
Cite media used in Pre-historic, pre-industrial, industrial, electronic, and information/digital age
- Pre-historic: Cave paintings, wood & stone carvings, papyrus, hieroglyphics
- Pre-industrial: smoke signal, pigeon post, pony express
- Industrial: phonograph, kinetoscope, typewriter, punched card, Gutenberg printing press
- Electronic: Radio, telephone, television, early computers
- Information: Internet, advanced tech, computer, smartphones, laptop
What is media and information literacy?
Set of competencies that empowers citizens to
- access
- understand
- use
- share
- retrieve
- evaluate and
- create
information critically, ethically, and effectively
Three types of media
Print, broadcast, new
5 things to consider in evaluating information
- Reliability: reliable if it can be verified and evaluated
- Accuracy: closeness of the report to actual data (ex: forecasts, financial predictions)
- Value: if it aids the user in making decisions
- Authority: is the author/source credible?
- Timeliness: relates to reliability, accuracy, and value throughout history
Four major types of libraries
- Academic: serves for colleges & universities
- Public: serves cities and towns of all types
- School: serves from K to 12
- Special: are in specialized environments such as hospitals, museums, military, private business, corporations, gov., etc.
Cite some examples of sources of information
Internet, social media, libraries, archives, museums, indigenous media, and our own experiences
Differentiate Media Literacy, Information Literacy, and Technology Literacy
- Both media and information literacy are concerned with the use of messages from various media platforms, but media literacy focuses on understanding, using, and creating messages from different media, while information literacy is the ability to effectively and sensibly find, evaluate, and utilize information
- Technology literacy pertains to the effective and responsible use of tools or social networks to access, evaluate, and generate messages/info.
What is media?
Source of credible information where content is provided through a process determined by journalistic values
It is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
Internet
Which age is marked with the use of steam engines, production of irons and various products such as books, etc.?
Industrial age
Differentiate print, broadcast, new media
- Print: more on written documents, either hard or soft copy, but traditionally pertaining to documents written with pen and paper (newspapers, books, e-books, magazines, brochures, comics)
- Broadcast: can be heard and seen, print media can only be seen. It uses airwaves as medium for transmission (radio, television, green screen stream, obs, satellite, movie/film
- New Media: anything related to the use of digital platforms (internet, social media)
What is literacy?
Ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, and compute materials associated with varying contexts
Also called a record player, reproducing sounds by means of vibration of a stylus, following a groove on a rotating disc
Phonograph