Media & Information Literacy

• Print Media - This type of media where paper and ink is reproduced in a printing process that is traditionally mechanical
• • Newspaper major source of information for a large number of readers
• Broadsheet: standard full size & major stories
• Tabloid: smaller & less series content
• • Book a collection of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge, usually within covers
• • Magazine specialized advertising media serves educational, informational and entertainment
• • Consumer Magazine: general public for information and entertainment
• Business Magazine: publication for business, industries and occupations
• Text Media - simple and flexible format for conveying ideas whether handwritten or printed. It can be displayed on-screen as part of broadcast media, multimedia, new media
• • Typography - art and technique of arranging the visual component of the written word, fonts and alignment are parts of typography
• Visual Media - refers to pictures, photos, images, and graphics used to channel communication using the sense of sight
• Graphic design - process of visual communication that organizes and presents information developed through a creative process for a particular purpose.
• Informational Graphics (Infographic) - is a visual representation of information to understand the high-volume and complex data easily
• Cartoons - sketch or drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
• Comics - series of drawings with speech bubbles containing dialogue between characters
• Photography – A photograph is an image created by light captured on a light-sensitive surface, which is usually photographic film.
• Broadcast Media - reaches target audiences using airwaves as the transmission medium such as radio and television
• Motion Picture - Moving Pictures are a sequence of still photographs displayed rapidly one after another to create the illusion of movement.
• Digital Media - refers to electronic media used to store, transmit, create, present, manipulate, distribute, retrieve, integrate, and manage digital content
• • Narrowcasting broadcasting to a very narrow range of audience
• • Television the principal source of information and entertainment for people exposed to mass media
• Audio Media - uses audio or voice recording as a medium in the delivery of information. These are devices that appeal to the auditory sense.
• • Radio Broadcasting - transmission of radio signals to multiple radio receivers over the air from 3 Hz to 300 GHz
• • Multimedia computer-controlled

  integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be stored, communicated, and handled digitally.
• Rich media - similar concept used in advertising
• • Hypermedia extension of multimedia where photos or graphics are linked to other sources of information
• New Media/Digital Media - integrate the different technologies emerging on one digital platform to organize and distribute content like podcasts,  augmented reality, video games, blogs, and wikis.
• Social Media - collective term for websites and applications that focus on communication, interaction, content sharing and collaboration.
• Video Sharing Platforms - upload share videos and livestream videos
• • Online Games - played through internet or any computer network
• • Websites collection of webpages in related content with common domain name
• • Email system for sending messages to one or more recipients
• • Podcast series of digital audio files
• • Vlog blog where medium is video
• Media Convergence - merging of different equipment and tools for producing and distributing news through digitization and computer networking e.g. smartphone
• Known as Technological Convergence
• Media Convergence synergy of communication, computing, and content in the digital world.
• • Weblogs have become very influential since the start of the twenty-first century where bloggers have written regarding their opinions on a variety of issues. 
• Film / Cinema - It is a series of images, which when displayed on screen, create an illusion of moving images by the phi phenomenon.
• Some examples of forms of media during the electronic age are typewriter, photography, and printing press. False