MIL FINALS REVIEWER

• It denotes how media producers make meaning about a certain medium (advertisement, TV show, film, etc.) they are producing and how they transfer that meaning to their target audience.

  Media Language
• This describes as the literal meaning of the media text

  Denotative meaning
• This refers to the various interpretations that the text suggests to the audience which are often associated with their culture, values, beliefs, etc.

  Connotative meaning
• This commonly have an established meaning, denotation or connotation, to the target audience.

  Media codes
• This refers to the possible methods in which codes are organized in a product.

  Media conventions
• The meaning of the product is not based on the product itself but on the interpretation of the audience.

  Symbolic codes
• This code in media include setting, mise en scene, acting and color. 

  Symbolic codes
• This refers to codes specific to a media form alone. The knowledge and connotations of different camera angles and shots make sense when looking at films and photographs but mean nothing outside those forms.

  Technical codes
• These are the formal written language used in creating a media product.

  Written codes
• This refer to the recognized ways of using media codes.

  Conventions
• These are ways in which the types of media codes are expected to be arranged.

  Form conventions
• This refer to the basic structures of narratives. Examples of story conventions involve narrative structures, character constructions, and point of view.

  Story conventions
• This refer to the common use of the elements of narratives such as the characters, settings, or themes in a certain type of media.

  Genre conventions
• This refers to the people who initiate, plan, and produce media texts.

  Media producers
• This refer to people or organizations that share the same interests or intentions.

  Stakeholders
• It is the process of looking into the demographics (age, gender, social status, etc.) and psychology (values, beliefs, attitude) of the audience.

  Audience analysis
• This refers to the reaction of the audience to the media text. Different people react in varied ways to the same text.

  Audience engagement
• This refers to the anticipation of the audience about the text. Producers may satisfy or shatter the audience’s expectations.

  Audience expectations
• This refers to the exact information (not expectations) which the audience brings about the media output.

  Audience foreknowledge
• This refers to the connection built by the media text to the audience.

  Audience identification
• This refers to the strategies producers use to make the audience feel that the media text is made specifically for them.

  Audience placement
• This refers to the monitoring of the audience before, during, and after the production of the media text.

  Audience research
• This refer to the possible methods in which codes are organized in a product.

  Media Conventions
• UNESCO

  United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• This recognizes that the internet holds enormous potential for development. It provides an unprecedented volume of resources for information and knowledge that opens up new opportunities and challenges for expression and participation.

  UNESCO
• Online Shopping - consumers can directly buy goods over the internet.
• Citizen Journalism - It is the collection, dissemination and analysis of news and information by the general public, especially by means of internet.
• Online Education - With internet connection, anyone can earn a degree without having to attend face-to-face class sessions.
• Age-Inappropriate Content - There is a wealth of information one can gain from the Internet, but there is also content that is unfit for children and young people like pornography and violence.
• Illegal Content - The Internet has also been, and continues to be, used by unscrupulous people to further their illegal activities, like human trafficking, the use of force, force, fraud, or coercion to obtain a commercial sex act or labor, and child pornography.
• Privacy Invasion and Identity Theft - Data posted on the Internet may be accessed and used for illegal activities.
• Phishing - It is a way to get sensitive personal information.
• Libel can be committed in the form of writing, printing, and other similar means.
• If the hurtful statement is spoken, the statement is slander.
• Piracy - This refers to the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content that is then sold at substantially lower prices in the black market.
• Cybercrime Law - It covers all other online anomalies such as identity theft, child pornography, data misuse, cybersquatting and other computer-related and internet facilitated practices.
• 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.
• Education - Media enhances the teaching and learning processes inside the four walls of the classrooms.
• Society - Media’s power appears unstoppable. Almost everyone is exposed to countless media images, advertisements, etc.
• Society - With the advent of social media, we are connected in ways that were not possible before.