module 8

• Technology


  The knowledge and utilization of tools, techniques, and systems to serve a bigger purpose like solving problems or making life easier and better
• Technology, particularly the use of internet, is vital in achieving any business goal as it renders every transaction / activity efficient, i.e;, achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted resources
• Media and information literacy

  An essential component of the Senior High School Curriculum that fosters equitable access to information and knowledge, which, in turn, open up opportunities
• Media and information are a powerful voice of the people to express feelings and thoughts
• Media and information literate


  Able to use these tools, and inquire, understand, communicate, and think critically
• Opportunities, Challenges, Threats and Risks in Media and Information

  • Online Shopping
  • Citizen Journalism
  • Online Education
  • Age-inappropriate content
  • Illegal content
  • Privacy invasion and identity theft
• The Philippine Constitution states that each person has the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Libel


  A person commits libel if he/she, with malice, publishes a false statement that is damaging to another person's reputation, office, trade, business or means of livelihood
• Slander


  A hurtful statement that is spoken
• Piracy


  The unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content that is then sold at substantially lower prices in the black market
• Cybercrime Law


  The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10175) covers all other online anomalies such as identity theft, child pornography, data misuse, cybersquatting and other computer-related and internet facilitated practices
• Innovation


  The process of developing a new method or process or product that better serves existing uses or start to serve a previously unidentified need
• Media innovation


  Includes the change in several aspects of the media landscape - from the development of new media platforms to new business models, to new ways of producing media texts changes in other areas such as education, society, economy and politics
• Media plays a crucial role in strengthening society as it helps us to know the current societal issues not only locally but also globally
• Media's power should be harnessed to educate people - enlightening people's minds and training people to form opinions and find solutions to societal problems
• The new media has made it possible for any individual to offer products and services online
• Innovation in media has likewise created new online jobs opportunities such as tutorials in various subjects, airline booking, art selling, product reviews on YouTube, blogging, photography and other IT related jobs
• Digital Diplomacy, also called E-diplomacy or Digi diplomacy is a government's use of social media and information technology to communicate to the public, especially foreign public
• Spreading information through social media enables to directly send messages quickly and cost-effectively to the target audiences, without convening a press conference or sending a press release to news agencies
• One of the current issues about social media on political affairs is the spread of fake news, both locally and abroad