Media and Information Literacy

• Media


  physical objects used to communicate
• Information


  Processed data/knowledge/experience/ and instruction
• Media Literacy


  Ability to analyze and evaluate info
• Information Literacy


  Recognize when informatin is needed
• Media and information literacy


  Essential skills that allow individuals to engage with media and other information
• Importance of literacy

  higher self esteem, better health, better job, and higher wages
• Media Literacy


  TV, Radio, newspapers, and magazines
• Information literacy 


  Distinguish b/w sources are relevant
• Writers and Journalists 


  Translate relevant and meaningful information
• Editors


  Ensure manuscripts are high in standard and are fit to print
• Directors


  Message of a show is made clear to audience
• Performance

  Actors who portray characters
• Visual artists 


  Ideas through artwork
• Truthfulness

  Info is accurate, factual, truthful, and reliable
• Fairness and objectivity

  Real and accurate, objective and based on grounded evidence
• Responsibility and Integrity


  Professionalism regardless of situation, sense of responsibility and accountability
• Empathy and Sympathy 


  Sensitive to the needs of others, respect to the privacy of others
• Hardworking

  Work hard in sourcing accurate information
• Indigenous knowledge 


  Knowledge to a specific group of people.

  Other terms: Local knowledge, folk knowledge, people's wisdom, traditional wisdom, and science
• Library


  Building/room/ or organization that has a collection especially of books
• Internet


  Global computer network providing variety of information and communication
• Primary sources


  First hand/Original/raw products of text

  Example: artifacts
• Secondary sources


  Analysis, interpretations, and evaluation of primary source
• Tertiary Source


  Combination of primary and secondary sources

  Examples: bibliography, yearbooks, guides to literature, and list of research progress
• Pre-industrial age (before 1700s)


  Discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and built weapons. Stone tools and metals as part of their daily activities
• Industrial 


  Power loom and the steam machine, long distance communication became possible via telegraph
• Electronic Age


  Utilized the power of technology
• Information Age (1900s-2000s)


  Dig age, use of world wide web through internet, ans communication became faster and easier
• Language

  technical and symbolic ingredients in an effort to communicate ideas, information, and knowledge
• Media Language


  indicate the meaning of media messages
• Print


  Words to create meaning of messages
• Television/print


  spoon fed with details
• Diegetic Sounds


  Raw sounds
• Non-diegetic sound

  added sounds/ with sound effect
• Codes


  system of signs to create arbitrary meaning
• Technical code


  Sound, angles, shots, and lighting
• Symbolic codes

  language, dress, or actions that're easily understood
• Conventions


  practice/ technique that's widely used in a field. Accepted way of doing things
• Technical conventions


  length of TV/Films
• Genre


  type of movie