MEDIA INFORMATION AND LITERACY

The purpose of being information and media literate is to engage in a digital society, one needs to be able to understand, inquire, create, communicate, and think critically.

Media can help us to gather information’s, spread information’s, aware, and updated in our surrounding’s. Media exist in many forms, the three main categories;

Print Media
– it refers to paper publications like newspapers, books, magazines, newsletters, and journals. it also includes brochures, posters, flyers, banners, and billboards.
– it is also considered as the oldest form of media.

Broadcast Media
– it includes radio, television, media that initially used the airwaves to reach their audience.

New Media
– it composed of media that use digital technologies like the internet. Under this category are social media, blogs, websites, and streaming media.
– more and more people now are using new media as means of communication.

From Traditional Media to New Media
from “traditional” and another “new”, especially now that exponential growth in computing power can easily make a new technology suddenly obsolete.

Traditional Media
– are those that transmit information without the use of the internet or any digital platform. (newspapers, tv, radio, and etc.)

New Media
– allowed people to access information when they want, where they want. And when new media specifically social media allowed us to instantly react, comment, and share with the click of a button on devices.
– on demand and interactive.

Media Information and Literacy
by this three we can do a lot of things, we can enjoy what we see in media, what we read and learn in information and literacy. If we could help other people that badly needed, lets help them by the use of this three things.

Published by angelie elizan

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