MEDIA INFORMATION LITERACY

• Library

  A building, room, or organization that has a collection, especially of books, music, and information that can be accessed by computer for people to read, use, or borrow
• Types of library resources

  • Print (books, newspaper, magazines, dictionaries, etc.)
  • Nonprint (audio, video, audio-visual files, digital documents, etc.)
• Types of books

  • Non-fiction (biographies, journals, memoir, essays, autobiography, academic textbooks, etc.)
  • Fiction (short stories, novels, myths, legends, fairy tales, etc.)
• Internet

  A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
• Internet media and information sources

  • Wikipedia
  • Google
  • Bing
  • Yahoo!
• Wikipedia


  A free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
• Wikipedia's first edit


  15 January 2001
• The earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993
• The concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman in 1998
• Google


  A search engine to search for information about (someone or something) on the internet
• The Google story begins at Stanford University

  1995
• They called this search engine Backrub
• A play on the word "googol," a mathematical term form for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros
• Larry and Sergey's mission was to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web
• Bing


  A web search tool claimed and worked by Microsoft
• Yahoo!


  A web search tool started at Stanford University, founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate
• Magazines


  Periodical publications containing articles and illustrations, typically covering a particular subject or area of interest
• Newspapers


  Printed publications (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence
• Encyclopedias

  Books or sets of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of a subject and typically arranged alphabetically

  
• Indigenous sources

  Information sources conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous peoples around the globe as vehicles for communication, where culture is preserved, handed down and adapted
• Forms of indigenous media

  • Records (written, carved, oral)
  • Folk or Traditional Media
  • Gatherings and Social Organizations